Quotes About Endurance

You know what they call the guy who finishes last in medical school? They call him Doctor!

There is an incredible amount of magic and feistiness in black men that nobody has been able to wipe out. But everybody has tried.

We conquer by continuing.

When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

For me, at least, there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until, by and by, out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result.

By perseverance the snails reached the ark.

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races, one after another.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

I never lost a game. I just ran out of time.

Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.

When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide.

When I am weak, then am I strong.

My strength is made perfect in weakness.

Grant me the courage not to give up, even though I think it is hopeless.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.

Once you sink that first stake, they'll never make you pull it up.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.

If you strike a thorn or rose, Keep a-goin! If it hails or if it snows, Keep a-goin! 'Tain't no use to sit and whine 'Cause the fish ain't on your line; Bait your hook an' keep on tryin'. Keep a-goin!

It requires a strong constitution to withstand repeated attacks of prosperity.

The first years of man must make provision for the last.

Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).

Nothing endures but personal qualities.