Quotes about Perseverance

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Life is hard but so very beautiful

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.

I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

There can be glory in failure and despair in success.

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first six of them sharpening my axe.