Quotes about Perseverance

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it ? but we must sail and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Every pursuit is great when greatly pursued.

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.