Quotes about Perseverance

So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

Everything that happens is either endurable or not. If it's endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining. If it's unendurable Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚¦ then stop complaining. Your destruction will mean its end as well. Just remember: you can endure anything your mind can make endurable, by treating it as in your interest to do so. In your interest, or in your nature. 4.

Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.

Stick to what's in front of you - idea, action, utterance.

Not to be overwhelmed by what you imagine, but just do what you can and should. And

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?

Remember, however, that you are formed by nature to bear everything whose tolerability depends on your own opinion to make it so, by thinking that it is in your interest or duty to do so.

Fire feeds on obstacles.

This is not a misfortune but that to bear it like a brave man is good fortune.

Whom a man might compare to one of those half-eaten wretches, matched in the amphitheatre with wild beasts; who as full as they are all the body over with wounds and blood, desire for a great favour, that they may be reserved till the next day

And whensoever thou findest thyself; that thou art in danger of a relapse, and that thou art not able to master and overcome those difficulties and temptations that present themselves in thy present station: get thee into any private corner, where thou mayst be better able. Or if that will not serve forsake even thy life rather. But so that it be not in passion but in a plain voluntary modest way: this being the only commendable action of thy whole life that thus thou art departed