Quotes about Perseverance

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.

Ad astra per aspera. (To the stars through difficulties.)

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

A champion is not defined by their wins but how they recover when they fall.

Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

When we ask God to move a mountain, God may give us a shovel.

Augustine of Hippo: "In affliction, then, we do not know what it is right to pray for. Because affliction is difficult, troublesome and against the grain for us, weak as we are, we do what every human would do. We pray that it may be taken away from us. However, if he does not take it away, we must not imagine that he has forgotten us. In this way, power shines forth more perfectly in weakness.

So live real good, and get beat up real bad. Dance until they kill you, and then we'll dance some more. That's how this thing seems to work.

We must take a plunge into the darkness before we can fully appreciate the light.