Top 1200 Courage And Perseverance Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences.

No one who shall invoke this Mother of Grace with devotion and perseverance can possibly perish forever.

Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Truthfully, in this age those with intellect have no courage and those with some modicum of physical courage have no intellect. If things are to alter during the next fifty years then we must re-embrace Byron’s ideal: the cultured thug.

Preferring healthful foods is a skill, and skills take practice and perseverance to develop.

Hollywood, as everyone knows, glamorizes physical courage. . . . if I had to define courage myself, I wouldn't say it's about shooting people. I'd say it's the quality that stimulates people, that enables them to move ahead and look beyond themselves.

That’s why courage is tricky. Should you always do what others tell you to do? Sometimes you might not even know why you’re doing something. I mean, any fool can have courage. But honor, that’s the real reason you either do something or you don’t. It’s who you are and maybe who you want to be.

When I step out on stage in front of thousands of people, I don't feel that I'm being brave. It can take much more courage to express true feelings to one person. [...] In spite of the risks, the courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love.

I've definitely been in ruts, and I think having some kind of perseverance is important.

It takes courage to say, "I need help" and to be vulnerable and accept advice from people who may be wiser than you are. It takes courage to die to ourselves so we can become fully alive in a love and hope and freedom that only come when we do push our pride away.

Patience and perseverance are never more thoroughly Christian graces than when features of prayer.

People talk about the courage of cancer patients, and I do not deny that courage. I had been poked and stabbed and poisoned for years, and still I trod on. But make no mistake: In that moment, I would have been very, very happy to die.

I'll admit that it's not easy to get an agent, but becoming successful in anything requires perseverance.

Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.

There is a voice inside of my head that is trying to convince me that I'm not good enough and that I don't deserve to be here in Hollywood. So courage is required. The courage to decide that I have a voice and need to do what I love. To believe that this opportunity is not wasted on me. To own the fact that I am worthy.

Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.

Three rules of success in fashion: perseverance, dream a bit and be passionate about it.

A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.

Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.

I can see in the acorn the oak tree. I see the growth, the rebuilding, the restoring. I see that is the American psyche. There is so much we can draw understanding from. One of the lessons is the development of courage. Because without courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues consistently.

Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting in spite of fear.

The courage we need is not the fortitude to be obedient in the service of an unjust war, to help conceal lies, to do our job for a boss who has usurped power and is acting as an outlaw government. It is the courage at last to face honestly the truth and reality of what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it.

For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute.

As warriors, as humanitarians, they've taught me that without courage, compassion falters, and that without compassion, courage has no direction.

Peace and solidarity in Europe is not a law of nature. It requires caring, effort and perseverance

My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian mother.

Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.

Life is difficult no matter what, but hard work and perseverance make it a lot easier.

If you want to be successful in a particular field of endeavor, I think perseverance is one of the key qualities.

Even if you may be down to the worst, the best is potentially within you. You only have to find it, release it, and rise up with it. This requires courage and character, to be sure, but the main requirement is faith. Cultivate faith and you will have the necessary courage and character.

I have learned that you need to have patience, perseverance, and faith in people to reach your goals.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.

The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his country when he know he is right, who can defy those in authority over him, who can take punishment and prison and remain steadfast-that is a man of courage. The fellow whom you taunt as a 'slacker' because he refuses to turn murderer-he needs courage. But do you need much courage just to obey orders, to do as you are told and to fall in line with thousands of others to the tune of general approval and the Star Spangled Banner?

Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it was on a battlefield or a baseball diamond, in a speech or fighting for a cause, that they had courage that they would stand up, that they could be counted on.

Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

Becoming a professional artist takes talent and perseverance, even more so when the field is photography.

As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.

You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the Atlantic or Pacific. That any fool can do, but the courage to be on your own, to stand on your two solid feet, is something which cannot be given by somebody.

We must assume our existence as broadly as we in any way can; everything, even the unheard - of, must be possible in it. This is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most inexplicable.

Indomitable perseverance in a business, properly understood, always ensures ultimate success.

Courage is a hard thing to figure. You can have courage based on a dumb idea or mistake but you’re not supposed to question adults or your coach or your teacher because they make the rules. Maybe they know best but maybe they don’t. It all depends on who you are, where you come from.

Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow.

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

It [what you choose to do] has got to be something that you're passionate about because otherwise you won't have the perseverance to see it through.

Courage is defined as: the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action. Many of today's world leaders have great courage: I wonder... would we be better off with cowardice?

Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it empowers us to develop courage; to trust that courage and build bridges with it; to trust those bridges and cross over them so we can attempt to reach each other.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.

The profile of a wealthy person is this hard work, perseverance, and most of all, self-discipline.

In all their wars against the French they [the Americans] never showed such conduct, attention and perseverance as they do now.

Perhaps the best-known Old Testament example of perseverance is the story of Job.

You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.