Our personal stories of perseverance contain immense wisdom that can assist others in finding their way to peace and illumination during difficult times.

This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small,large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force;never yield...

Beauty is sometimes born of pain

The Lack of perseverance and effort isn’t called Destiny !

This is a world where things move at their own pace, including a tiny lift Fortey and I shared with a scholarly looking elderly man with whom Fortey chatted genially and familiarly as we proceeded...

We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!

Your dreams won’t die until you die don’t ever stop believing!

To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy – that is the greatest dare.

I have a thing for things that last.

Discover a purpose that gives you passion. Develop a plan that makes you persistent. Design a preparation and motivates you to optimize your potentials. Do it because you love it!

Conclude that your are worth achieving beyond your expectations

Think upon the numbers I have been sharing with you. Of your competitors, five out of ten will do little more than take their customer’s money immorally. A further three out of ten will leave...

True winners remain winners because they truly believe that challenges, struggles, and obstacles can all lead to big blessings through persistence and perseverance.

I study the chessboard and concede defeat.”You can gain yourself in five moves” says the Colonel. “Worth fighting to the end. In five moves your opponent can err. No war is won or lost until...

No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord’s way. And let us never...

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It’s no use. I can’t go on. If you do you’re licked, and by your own...

(Everyday life is like a sack: with holes. And you carry it anyway.)

To make 2013 (or any other)your year, keep it simple:1) Count your blessings first2) Whatever you did last year, Do it better3) Go step by step, One day at a time.4) Create/make your own opportunities.5)...

There is no “can’t” in martial arts. It is perfectly all right for students to state that they are “still working on it”, “have not mastered it yet”, or “are trying as best they can”...

Look for excuses to celebrate others, and life will find a way to celebrate you.Make your life a prayer and be the light that touches lives far, wide and beyond.

Whoever is present in your spring would more than likely have respected your winter.

To truly defeat an enemy, no sacrifice is too great.

A lot of impulsive mistakes are made by people who simply aren’t willing to stay bored a little longer.

The road to success is longer than you’d like, but shorter than you imagine.

Some had come to look upon death as a mercy. Death meant warmth. Death was light. Life was cruel, cold, heavy and dark. Life was pain. Death was deliverance, and many would welcome it. Others...

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

Often, people give up without knowing success was just around the corner; if they had only preserved a little longer, if they had only tried one more time, they could have succeed.

God always has a plan. This isn’t his fault. This is a test, something designed to help you grow closer to God. And. I know, somehow, God will use it.

To reach a port we must set sail –Sail, not tie at anchorSail, not drift.

Sometimes, persevering…is simply having the courage to let go. ~Jason Versey

The moment you realize that life will hurt more than your death. While existing, we’re forced to become acquainted with sadness. There’s no antibiotic for the ridding of distress, and no alleviation of these intervals...

Never let go of a good thing without a fight. Especially if that good thing is a pair of boxing gloves.

We all fall sometime but it’s those that get back up and try again that make the difference.

Reputation is the panacea for those who lack confidence in their own decisions.

I’m just going to keep plugging away until I find success—or an electrical socket that works. This is the secret to gaining worldly power.

Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It’s about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.

I’ll admit that it’s not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

Don’t be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone’s bets. Be bold. Be stupid, if you have to: so long as you don’t hurt anybody, what’s it...

Whatever gets you through the night

You can either hold onto your dream by letting go of your excuses or hold onto your excuses by letting go of your dream.

Trust life. Trust your Creator. He will not deliver you to anything but the best.

Prayer elevates and transforms you. Nourish your soul using this powerful communication tool every day, and you will never be the same again.

The successful possess the courage to walk each day toward something; after coming through everything.

No, no- the sky will grow dark, cold rain will fall and all trace of the right way will be blotted out. You will be all alone. And still you will have to go on....

if one characteristic of Lyndon Johnson was a boundless ambition, another was a willingness, on behalf of that ambition, to make efforts that were also without bounds.

One play down and 497 to Go!

You never know what’s around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you’ve...

Keep trying until you have no more chances left.

In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is...

Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon? Life.