Perseverance

When the world says, “Give up,” Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”

- Author Unknown

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. 

- Josh Billings

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

- Japanese Proverb

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

- Newt Gingrich

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

- Albert Einstein

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. 

- Walter Elliott

Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. 

- Author Unknown

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

- Buddhist Saying

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.

- Charles F. Kettering

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. 

- William James

Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.

- Author Unknown

Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. 

- Earl Nightingale

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

- Louis Pasteur

If you are going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

- William Feather

Paralyze resistance with persistence.

- Woody Hayes

All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means… you’re willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.

- Vincent Lombardi

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

- Thomas Edison

How long should you try? Until. 

- Jim Rohn

Live-in Words I

Going along the lane of life, there are words that affect, that live in us. Poems and Prose, that speak our mind, touch, some such quotes, that do the trick for me are:

What if we still hold on, we two

with life forever old yet new,

changed not in kind, but in degree.

The instant made eternity-

And heaven just prove that you and me

stay alone, together, forever and forever

- Browning

Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows,

And when we meet at anytime again,

Be it not seen in either of our brows-

That we one jot of former love retain

-Drayton

Love alters not with this brief hours and weeks

But bears it out even to the edge of doom

 - Shakespeare

And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare

As any you belied with false compare.

- Shakespeare

Come live with me and be my love,

And we will some new pleasures prove.

- Marlowe

Love's riddles are, that though thy heart depart

It stays at home, and thou with losing savest it

-Donne

Teach me to love and to forgive,

Exact my own defect to scan,

What others are, to feel, and know myself a man.

-Gray

Come to me in my dreams, and then

By day, I shall be well again!

For then the night will more than pay

The hopeless longing of the day.

- Arnold