#perseverance

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

"Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?"

"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!"

"When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself."

"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people."

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."

"So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings."

"I am sore wounded but not slainI will lay me down and bleed a whileAnd then rise up to fight again"

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

"If everyone could be a successful and rich author, there would be no point in working so hard. Where is the fun in that?"

"Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists."

"When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge."

"Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression."

"What is grander than a country and more valuable than gold? Strength of heart."

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."

"Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes."

"Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong."

"The journey to success is easy if you know the road map and have persistence and perseverance."

"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable"