Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-20] of 105 Perseverance quotesPerseverance QuotesPerseverance Next 20 quotes The key to wisdom is this -- constant and frequent questioning ... for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.~ Peter Abelard Freedom degenerates unless it has to struggle in its own defence.~ Lord Acton At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities....~ Lord Acton Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom," it is a very serious consideration ... that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.~ Samuel Adams It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.~ Samuel Adams Slow and steady wins the race.~ Aesop Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.~ Florence Ellinwood Allen Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means to push back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.~ Henri Frederic Amiel The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution in spirit, the forces which had produced inequities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration. It is not enough merely to call for freedom, democracy and human rights. There has to be a united determination to persevere in the struggle, to make sacrifices in the name of enduring truths, to resist the corrupting influences of desire, ill will, ignorance, and fear.~ Aung San Suu Kyi Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man’s knowledge.~ Sir Francis Bacon Letting a maximum number of views be heard regularly is not just a nice philosophical notion. It is the best way any society has yet discovered to detect maladjustments quickly, to correct injustices, and to discover new ways to meet our continuing stream of novel problems that rise in a changing environment.~ Ben H. Bagdikian For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men’s control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil’s stranglehold will be easily broken.~ Andrew Bernstein This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence -- but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious.~ Bruno Bettelheim Most of the things worth doing in the world have been declared impossible before they were done.~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.~ Ashleigh Brilliant Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp. Or what’s a heaven for?~ Robert Browning None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.~ Pearl S. Buck There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.~ Buddha To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.~ Buddha Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.~ Lord Byron Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print