Quotes About Persistence In Adversity

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

— Nikki Giovanni

Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.

— Norman Vincent Peale

And if in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but continue to walk in hostility toward Me,

— Leviticus 26:23

When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left—though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates—

— Nehemiah 6:1

So the wall was completed in fifty-two days, on the twenty-fifth of Elul.

— Nehemiah 6:15

When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.

— Job 7:4

It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.

— Job 27:22

Success is buried on the other side of rejection.

— Tony Robbins

I want to believe in a new thing, Lord. I want that more than anything. I want to forget the old things—the bad and ugly things that have sent me here. Please let me see your hand in all of this. Let me see the path through this wilderness.

— Tracie Peterson

Do no be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends.

— Paulo Coelho