#perseverance

"Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too."

"There's sometimes a tugging feeling you get to push further when you aren't being challenged enough or when things get too comfortable."

"It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life."

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

"Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind."

"Life keeps throwing me curve balls and I don't even own a bat. At least my dodging skills are improving."

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

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

"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."

"What'll you do if you can't find a way to cure him?"Seth asked.Dale paused. "I'll never know that day has come, because I'll never stop trying."

"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 climbed a mountain."

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

"Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us."

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

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

"I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance."

"A true philosopher must never give up."

"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."

"A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn."

"Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace."