perseverance Quotes

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.