Quotes about Perseverance
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
- Joseph Campbell
He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.
- Joseph Campbell
Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)
- Joseph Campbell
You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.
- Joseph Campbell
Not all who hesitate are lost.
- Joseph Campbell
It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.
- AA Hodge
You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.
- AA Milne
The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.
- AA Milne
But I can't stay here for a week!" "You can stay here all right, silly old Bear. It's getting you out which is so difficult.
- AA Milne
It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.
- AA Milne
So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.
- AA Milne
When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.
- AA Milne