Quotes about Perseverance

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

If you give me half a chance. I'll prove this to you. I will be patient, kind, faithful and true.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaint.

You die and die and then you are beyond death.

When we can sing in the face of death, we can sing in the face of anything.

I strike spurs into my horse. Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.