Quotes about Perseverance

I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

this too shall pass

All I can do is the best I can do. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

The only difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is the way we address the rocks cast into our path.

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

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in...

Keep your place in life and your place will keep you

Slow but steady wins the race.

A very large Oak was uprooted by the wind, and thrown across a stream. It fell among some Reeds, which it thus addressed: I wonder how you, who are so light and weak, are not entirely crushed by these strong winds. They replied: You fight and contend with the wind, and consequently you are destroyed; while we, on the contrary, bend before the least breath of air, and therefore remain unbroken. Stoop to conquer.

Perseverance is surer than swiftness.

One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: This too shall pass.

Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.