Quotes about Perseverance

The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

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You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. If you can live through that you can live through anything. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes—understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.