Quotes about Perseverance
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
- Samuel Johnson
I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.
- Abraham Lincoln
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
- Mahatma Gandhi
While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace.
- John F. Kennedy
Thy peace shall be in much patience.
- Thomas a Kempis
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus
Personal discipline is a most powerful character quality and one worthy of dedicating your life to nurturing.
- Elizabeth George
If you are on the right path, it will always be uphill.
- Henry B. Eyring
Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it.
- Andrew Carnegie
There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
- Walt Whitman
When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.
- John Wesley