Quotes about Perseverance
With hope, failure is a skipping stone. Without hope, failure is a tombstone.
— John Maxwell
Once you find that idea, start moving forward and act decisively. U.S. admiral William Halsey observed, "All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.
— John Maxwell
Failures, repeated failures, are finger-prints on the road to achievement. .
— John Maxwell
You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, I dont care how hard this is, I dont care how disappointed I am, I'm not going to let this get the best of me. I'm moving on with my life.
— Joel Osteen
To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
— Thomas Jefferson
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
— George Washington
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
— Joseph Addison
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
— Dan Quayle
If you give me half a chance. I'll prove this to you. I will be patient, kind, faithful and true.
— India Arie
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaint.
— William Osler