Quotes About Perseverance In Hardship

I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

— Al Gore

You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear.

— Max Lucado

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

— Washington Irving

The darkest skies are home to the brightest stars.

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

— Maya Angelou

You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise.

— Maya Angelou

We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed (2 Corinthians 4:8-9).

— Myles Munroe

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

— Nelson Mandela

Prison was a kind of crucible which tested a man's character. Some men, under pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.

— Nelson Mandela

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

— Og Mandino

God decided to leave you in this fallen world to live, love, and work, because he intended to use the difficulties you face to do something in you that couldn't be done any other way.

— Paul David Tripp

For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.”

— Genesis 40:15