#perseverance

"Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

"Hardships make or break people."

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

"Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills."

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

"When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction."

"The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying"

"Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence."

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

"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."

"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day."

"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."

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

"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow."

"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."