#severance

You must dare, and dare again, and then dare a little bit more, and go on daring. ↗

— Justin Cotillard

#boldness #cotillard #courage #dare #daring

I'm just a regular guy who up until a few years ago totally underestimated what I felt I was capable of. Since then my experiences have taught me that we are all capable of the extraordinary in our lives. ↗

— Ray Zahab

#perseverance #running #attitude

Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#moving-forward #perseverance #courage

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#dragon #endurance #hobbit #inspiration #perseverance

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#enjoy-life #hope #perseverance #courage

... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both. ↗

— José Saramago

#perseverance #courage

It is the hardest thing of all, the one thing that will show if you have the one true courage. To know that you have failed, that your best efforts have been defeated, to not be able to stand it, to not be able to go on and yet to go on nonetheless. ↗

— Silvia Hartmann

#endurance #failure #hard #mantra #moving-on

Boy, the solid things you can hold in your hands are never all you've got. They're the least of what belong to you. The qualities inside you, those are what you've really got to defend yourself with. ↗

— Traci L. Slatton

#perseverance #strength-of-character #wisdom #courage

I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something – the eternal ‘what’s the use?’ – sets its bronze barrier across every avenue that I open up in the realm of hypothesis. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#depression #despair #perseverance #dreams

He would never exhort the faithful to persevere if he were not ready to give them the power to do so. ↗

— St. Francis de Sales

#perseverance #faith