Explore the value of Perseverance

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PERSEVERANCE QUOTATIONS
“Today if anything is trying to hold you back, give no attention to it. Get your hopes up, get your faith up, look up, and get ready to rise up.”

Germany Kent

“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”

Michael Jordan

“I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”

Christopher Reeve

“You just can't beat the person who never gives up.”

Babe Ruth

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”

Sir Winston Churchill

“Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success.”

Leigh Mitchell Hodges

“Going one more round, when you don’t think you can, that’s what makes all the difference in life.”

Sylvester Stallone

“Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

Thomas Carlyle

“The best way out is always through. ”

Robert Frost

“When life gets you down, do you wanna know what you've gotta do? Just keep swimming!”

Dory, Finding Nemo

“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.”

Rabindranath Tagore

“Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”

Kobe Bryant

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Anderson from Colatina-ES, Brasil APRIL 26, 2012
Em um momento de seu ministério Ludmila Ferber sempre cantava sobre não desistirmos, tudo o que começa termina e enquanto isso lutamos até vencer. In a moment of your ministry Ludmila Ferber always sang about not giving up, everything begins and ends as it fought to win.

John Talbert from Joyce Louisiana DECEMBER 7, 2011
Perseverance is being willing to go through two valleys to reach the top of the mountain. Without the valleys we would never appreciate the mount top.

Jacob from Canada AUGUST 27, 2011
It was all thanks to skateboarding for making me realize how important perseverance is. :')

Maqsood Ahmed Soomro from Sukkur , Pakistan JANUARY 11, 2011
It is perhaps the Best way to Describe your feelings.

Kathryn V from Mingo IA MAY 10, 2010
This is the best way I know to express my feelings!

Michael, Amegatse from Ghana NOVEMBER 23, 2009
Thank you!