Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [61-80] of 105 Perseverance quotesPerseverance QuotesPerseverance Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.~ Thomas Jefferson In the long vista of the years to roll, Let me not see my country's honor fade; Oh! let me see our land retain its soul! Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade.~ John Keats I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.~ Helen Keller Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.~ John F. Kennedy Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Fatigue makes cowards of us all.~ Vince Lombardi True freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free.~ James Russell Lowell The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.~ Martin Luther I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.~ Nelson Mandela Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.~ Richard Mitchell If you stop struggling, then you stop life.~ Huey P. Newton There will be no prison which can hold our movement down... The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.~ Huey P. Newton You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.~ Huey P. Newton As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.~ Suso Ohno Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.~ Isabel Paterson Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.~ Plato Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.~ Plutarch We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can make for us or spare us.~ Marcel Proust If you think you're too small to make a difference, you haven't been in bed with a mosquito.~ Anita Roddick Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print