Quotes about Perseverance
If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his life jacket on.
— Lou Holtz
Your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.
— Abraham Lincoln
Human Salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Let nothing disturb thee, Let nothing affright thee, All things are passing, God changeth never.
— Teresa of Avila
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.
— Euripides
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
— Anonymous
The English nation is never so great as in adversity.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.
— Anonymous
All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
— Kathleen Norris