#perseverance

"Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace."

"There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you, and there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself."

"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!"

"Boy, the solid things you can hold in your hands are never all you've got. They're the least of what belong to you. The qualities inside you, those are what you've really got to defend yourself with."

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

"Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection."

"First, I thought, almost despairing,This must crush my spirit now;Yet I bore it, and am bearing-Only do not ask me how."

"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."

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

"For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. – Bill W."

"You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more."("The Castle")"

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

"That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse."

"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."

"Your education is important because with only a few words you can show an employer the depth of your potential."

"Always let your talent and tenacity do the talking. Never your tantrums or sense of self righteousness or entitlement. For it is your talent and tenacity that will carve out, shape and seal your possibilities and destiny."

"Though you may hear me holler,And you may see me cry--I'll be dogged, sweet baby,If you gonna see me die."

"I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard."

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

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