Quotes about Persistence

God has never given a dream that could be fulfilled at step one. So start walking, be obedient, and watch God fulfill that dream in your life.

Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.

Prayer pushes us through life's slumps, propels us over the humps and pulls us out of the dumps. Prayer is the oomph we need to get the answers we seek.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it's doomed to failure.

Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday...