The tired ox treads with a firmer step.

Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.

Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.

Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.

Be not afraid for little grace. Christ soweth His living seed, and He will not lose His seed; if He have the guiding of my stock and state35 it shall not miscarry. Our spilt works, losses, deadness, coldness, wretchedness, are the ground which the good Husbandman laboureth.

Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.

Sometimes we have to wait a long time to see conversions.

Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.