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Here are some beautiful quotes on perseverance:
“Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.” — Louis D. Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice
“Don’t feel entitled to anything you didn’t sweat and struggle for.” — Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children’s Defense Fund
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” — T.S. Eliot Poet
“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” — Robert G. Ingersoll, Poet
“We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough.” — Helen Keller
“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.” — Abraham Lincoln
“The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle–the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.” — Douglas MacArthur, American general
“True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.” — John Petit-Senn, French Poet
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.” — George Santayana, American philosopher and poet
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”–Japanese Proverb
“The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.” — Author Unknown
“Saints are sinners who kept on going.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.” — Buddhist Saying
“When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.” — Author Unknown
“Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.” — Jacob A. Riis
Considering my having been a case manager with seriously mentally ill clients, these would do well for any of us, in regard to our own mental health. Joan :shamrock:
“Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.” — Louis D. Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice
“Don’t feel entitled to anything you didn’t sweat and struggle for.” — Marian Wright Edelman, founder of the Children’s Defense Fund
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” — T.S. Eliot Poet
“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.” — Robert G. Ingersoll, Poet
“We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough.” — Helen Keller
“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.” — Abraham Lincoln
“The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle–the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.” — Douglas MacArthur, American general
“True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.” — John Petit-Senn, French Poet
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.” — George Santayana, American philosopher and poet
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”–Japanese Proverb
“The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.” — Author Unknown
“Saints are sinners who kept on going.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.” — Buddhist Saying
“When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.” — Author Unknown
“Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.” — Jacob A. Riis
Considering my having been a case manager with seriously mentally ill clients, these would do well for any of us, in regard to our own mental health. Joan :shamrock: