Quotes about Perseverance

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

Life is achievement....Give yourself an aim, something you want to do, then go after it, breaking through everything, with nothing in mind but your aim, all will, all concentration, and get it.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish...

I'm not capable of suffering completely. I never have. It goes only down to a certain point and then it stops. As long as there is that untouched point, it's not really pain.

Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make.

He has once built his fortune, starting out with empty hands; now he had to rebuild his life, starting out with an empty spirit

I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was not without hope. For the battle they lost can never be lost. For that which they died to save can never perish. Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through. And man will go on.

she had always looked for sparks of competence, like a diamond prospector in an unpromising wasteland.

We knew not where we were going. We only knew that we must run, run to the end of the world, run to the end of our days.

There's no surer way to destroy a man than to force him into a spot where he has to aim at not doing his best, where he has to struggle to do a bad job, day after day.

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God.

Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, all things are passing, God is unchanging. Patience gains all; nothing is lacking to those who have God: God alone is sufficient.