#severance

[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#perfection #perseverance #personal-growth #self-discipline #success

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confidence #confident #determination #dragon #dragons

In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. ... In the real world, all rests on perseverance. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#perseverance #inspirational

Disciplined runners consistently clear their heads and focus fully on the journey ahead.. .because their passion and zeal for the goal supersedes the strain. The goal beckons them onward. Passion doesn't negate weariness; it just resolves to press beyond it. ↗

— Priscilla Shirer

#god #inspirational #perseverance #faith

In the long years to come, not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, look back to what we've done, and they will say 'do not despair, do not yield...march straightforward. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#perseverance #freedom

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker. ↗

— Robert Wise

#got #passion #patience #perseverance #three

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#perseverance #attitude

Time and again the sun sets like a bedimming curtain before my eyes, taking with it all illumination, warmth, and color.  I am overwhelmed by night and the monsters that lurk in shadows of despair.  But alas, stars twinkle from afar, shedding the tiniest rays of lighted hope.  I am reminded that the sun also rises, and that morning's glory shall restore beauty to my world.  The realization of this dream is only a matter of waiting out the dreary night.  So, I shall persevere. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#hope #perseverance #richelle #richelle-goodrich #sunrise

Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You. ↗

— Juan de la Cruz

#christian #god-s-grace #god-s-love #hope #perseverance

He who has never left his hearth and has confined his researches to the narrow field of the history of his own country cannot be compared to the courageous traveller who has worn out his life in journeys of exploration to distant parts and each day has faced danger in order to persevere in excavating the mines of learning and in snatching precious fragments of the past from oblivion. ↗

— Mas'udi

#perseverance #travel #courage