Pope Francis Quotes

It took strength to hold on to inner passion, and Noah had done that.

Fight each round take it on the chin. And never never never ever give in.

I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences.

By hook or by crook this peril too shall be something that we remember

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.

Don't give up, courage is my conviction.

Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'

Could he not find in his heart the generosity to acknowledge that there is a small nation that stood alone not for one year or two, but for several hundred years against aggression; that endured spoliations, famines, massacres in endless succession; that was clubbed many times into insensibility, but that each time on returning [to] consciousness took up the fight anew; a small nation that could never be got to accept defeat and has never surrendered her soul?

Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

Real courage embraces the twin realities of current difficulty and ultimate triumph.

Never give up! If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses, Is the stout watchword of "Never give up."

Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.

I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it till the end of the race.

I hope my life is a testimony to show people no matter what you go through, how many hurdles are placed in front of you, how many bumps and bruises you get, to pick yourself up and be resilient and keep on trucking.

The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.

I still have plenty of fight left in me.

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

I have always said about myself I am a survivor because I am.

My Dad was such an incredible person, and you have the option of just curling up in a dark corner and letting it all go or you have the option of standing strong, sticking together and carrying on what he lived and died for. And I think that's what's so important - to be able to carry on where he left off.