perseverance Quotes

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.