“Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.”
“It is surmounting difficulties that make heros.”
“It is not our difficulties or our suffering alone that makes us wise. It is what we add to them--patience, perseverance, compassion, courage, love. From this combination, our priceless pearls of wisdom grow.”
“Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.”
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. ”
“We may not get what we want, when we want. But with a bit of perseverance and a lot of patience, we can get what we need.”