Quotes about Perseverance

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Quitting is leading too.

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

I never lose, I either win or learn

She married a man who soon left her; that man became a myth; and then that myth returned home and proved to be just a man after all.

Prison is designed to break one's spirit and destroy one's resolve. To do this, the authorities attempt to exploit every weakness, demolish every initiative, negate all signs of individuality--all with the idea of stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are.

Never forget that a saint is a sinner who keeps on trying.

Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished.

No matter what I suffered in my pursuit of freedom, I always took strength from the fact that I was fighting with and for my own people. Bram was a free man who fought against his own people to ensure the freedom of others

After years of imprisonment, physical and emotional abuse, and separation from his family, Mandela said, "I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away." So Mandela's story is really the story of those two things he never gave away: his brilliant mind, and his great heart.

He makes the basic point that it is not so much the disability one suffers from that matters but one's attitude to it. The man who says: I will conquer this illness & live a happy life, is already halfway through to victory.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.