Quotes about Perseverance
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
— Carol Burnett
Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.
— Winston Churchill
No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Never wish life were easier, wish that you were better.
— Jim Rohn
The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who's going to stop me.
— Ayn Rand
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
— Nelson Mandela
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew -
— Francis de Sales
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bi...ed from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.
— Ernest Hemingway
Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
— Charles Spurgeon
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
— Leo Burnett