Perseverance Quotes - Page 28

• We’re all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?

  J. K. Rowling

  Fighting, Neville Longbottom, Knows

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• More to the point, I know why soldiers, home from war, seldom tell their families about their exploits in more than general terms. We who survive must go on in the names of those who fall, but if we dwell too much on the vivid details of what we've witnessed of man's inhumanity to man, we simply can't go on. perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

  Dean Koontz

  War, Fall, Home

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.294, Bantam

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• Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Strength, Moving On, Encouraging

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• In my opinion, the teaching, rearing, and training of children requires more intelligence, intuitive understanding, humility, strength, wisdom, spirituality, perseverance, and hard work than any other challenge we might have in life.

  James E. Faust

  Children, Teaching, Hard Work

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• Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

  Sherman Alexie

  Giving, Lessons, Poverty

  Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.23, Random House

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• I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Art, Nine, Helping

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Success, Endure

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• you can do anything you set your mind to

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Mind, Politician

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• My stories are of gas chambers, shootings, electrified fences, torture, scorching sun, mental abuse, and constant threat of death. But they are also stories of faith, hope, triumph, and love. They are stories of perseverance, loyalty, courage in the face of overwhelming odds, and of never giving up!

  Livia Bitton-Jackson

  Loyalty, Giving Up, Odds

  Livia Bitton-Jackson (2011). “I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing Up in the Holocaust”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Adversity introduces a man to himself.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Adversity, Men

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• Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do

  Pele

  Motivational, Success, Soccer

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• It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Journey, Yesterday

  Charles Dickens (1995). “Nicholas Nickleby”, p.262, Wordsworth Editions

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• Hardships make or break people.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Being Strong, Courage, Adversity

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.439, Hamilton Books

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• Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a strength which is rock-like. But because it is so deep we need both patience and perseverance when digging for it.

  Paul Brunton

  Healing, Heart, Rocks

  Paul Brunton (1984). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton”, Larson Publication

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• When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.

  Jane Austen

  Two, People, Comfort

  Jane Austen, Robert Morrison (2011). “Persuasion: An Annotated Edition”, p.300, Harvard University Press

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• It's not how we fall. It's how we get back up again.

  Patrick Ness

  Fall, Get Back

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• We may not get what we want, when we want. But with a bit of perseverance and a lot of patience, we can get what we need.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Needs, May, Want

  Sarah Strohmeyer (2008). “Sweet Love”, p.193, Penguin

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• It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Life, Rights, Needs

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2010). “Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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• Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary".

  Unknown

  Motivational, Success, Encouragement

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• ...there must be a sequence to learning, that perseverance and a certain measure of perspiration are indispensable, that individual pleasures must frequently be submerged in the interests of group cohesion, and that learning to be critical and to think conceptually and rigorously do not come easily to the young but are hard-fought victories.

  Neil Postman

  Thinking, Victory, Groups

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.146, Penguin

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  Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Heart, Waiting, Faithful

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• The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions that Will Help You See It and Seize It”, p.169, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great

  Muriel Spark

  Winning, Victory, Doctrine

  Muriel Spark (2014). “Memento Mori”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

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• As readers, we remain in the nursery stage so long as we cannot distinguish between taste and judgment, so long, that is, as the only possible verdicts we can pass on a book are two: this I like; this I don't like. For an adult reader, the possible verdicts are five: I can see this is good and I like it; I can see this is good but I don't like it; I can see this is good and, though at present I don't like it, I believe that with perseverance I shall come to like it; I can see that this is trash but I like it; I can see that this is trash and I don't like it.

  W. H. Auden

  Book, Believe, Two

  "A Certain World: A Commonplace Book". Book by W. H. Auden, 1970.

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• If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

  Beryl Markham

  Wisdom, Business, Character

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.170, Open Road Media

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