Add persistence to patience, you get perseverance. Multiply perseverance, you get success.

Guard your heart:Mysterious things happen in there.Stand as the watchman of your soul, And be careful about what you let in.For, therefrom, come all your life's issues.

Being brave is not the absence of fear, but having courage greater than it to dare!

Love is more than feelings, yet feelings are important. Love is more than words, yet words are important.Love is a commitment to do, say and be the best you you can be for someone else.

Perseverance....It sometimes makes you look like a foolWorking at something that that doesn't look cool.Never mind if people mock you from their stoolWhen you are enthroned they will drool!

You never know how long it will take. The route to success is unpredictable. So pack the essentials: parcels of love and peace, packets of patience and hope, and bundles of perseverance!

Where it comes from I don't know. Is it a gift? I don't know. But with perseverance you are sure to always end up on the winning side.

Perseverance is persistent insistence.

Mental toughness is an element in the make up of perseverance.

Standing where God's mercies fall is the guarantee for being blessed.

To succeed perseverance yells "pain to gain". If you don't take heed, you'll end up slain!

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.

I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.

In a dazzling vote of confidence for form over substance, our culture fawns over the fleetingness of being “in love” while discounting the importance of loving. (206)

Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow will offer their heads for a prayer. You can't find no salvation, you have no expectations anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

People think it's funny when a dumb person can't do things the same way they can.

I've secretly always wanted to be an astronaut.

The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.

I like gifts. I like to give them and I like to get them.

Learning to receive feedback from each other is what leadership is all about.

The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.