Perseverance

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.

Robert Kiyosaki

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Seneca

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

George Bernard Shaw

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Margaret Thatcher

The road to success is always under construction.

Lily Tomlin

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

David Brinkley

Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Carl Sandburg

Hope is the power that gives us the power to step out and try.

Zig Ziglar

I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have.

Abraham Lincoln

Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams.

Samuel Sachs

Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance in the rain.

Vivian Greene

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

David Viscott

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To every one his own cross seems heaviest.

Italian proverbs

Under white ashes there is glowing coal.

Italian proverbs

It is always the worst wheel that creaks.

French proverbs

Do not judge of the ship while it is on the stocks.

Italian proverbs

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

If you stand straight do not fear a crooked shadow.

Chinese proverbs