Quotes about Perseverance
The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest success comes only later.
— Confucius
Whatever you do you need courage. ... To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Courage is very important. Like a muscle it is strengthened by use.
— Ruth Gordon
So when the crisis is upon you remember that God like a trainer of wrestlers has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games.
— Epictetus
I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."
— Harriet Tubman
Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three
— Bob Goff
Death alone will put a stop to my effort!
— David Livingstone
It was the cowards who died many times before their death.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
— Virginia Woolf
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
— Samuel Johnson
I have found that living with faith in an unseen world requires constant effort.
— Philip Yancey