“Strange as it sounds, steady, patient growth in freedom is probably the most difficult task of all, requiring the greatest courage.”
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Perseverance quotes
These perseverance quotes provide the steady encouragement you need to face setbacks. Read them when you are stuck to rebuild your momentum and focus on your next small step.
“Courage is the capacity to meet the anxiety which arises as one achieves freedom. It is the willingness to differentiate, to move from the protecting realms of parental dependence to new levels of freedom and integration.”
“Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values.”
“The burden which is well borne becomes light.”
“Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.”
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
“He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion.”
“Whether you want to break free or connect, it's your choice. With great courage, I locked eyes with you.”
“Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.”
“Real courage, however, is shown by those who don't merely follow the trend or status quo but stand up for what is right and truly just and do not kneel.”
“Everybody's afraid, but to do your job in combat you have to put your fear down.”
“Such is the essence of valor: an unthinking moment, a spark along the spinal nerves, predetermined by the sum total of everything you have ever done, wished to do or not to do, and wish you had done, or hadn't, and then comes the pain.”