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I am proud to represent people who care so deeply about their communities. Their perseverance and strength only motivates me more as their representative in Congress.
Sep 18, 2025
Everybody wants to make more movies. You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is a brutally challenging business.
I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.
There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.
It feels good to show some courage.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Try and fail,but don't fail to try.
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. The mind does not create what it perceives, anymore than the eye creates the rose.
I see light at the end of the tunnel.
The Kennedys have always represented a certain royal quality, Camelot, and they represent a great deal of integrity and strength and perseverance; faith in the future of America and where we could go. What a tragedy it was that the carpet was pulled out from under our feet.
It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
You become a worrier by practicing worry. You can become free of worry by practicing the opposite and stronger habit of faith. With all the strength and perseverance you can command, start practicing faith.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!
Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want
Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.
Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.
It is the business of little minds to shrink.
It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
The world is full of educated derelicts.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.