Quotes about Persistence

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

Everything that's worth having is some trouble…

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up. -L.M. Montgomery

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

None of us ever do, said Mrs. Allan with a sigh. But then, Anne, you know what Lowell says, 'Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great. Hold fast to your ideals, Anne.

When we have to do a thing...we can do it.

None of us ever do," said Mrs. Allan with a sigh. "But then, Anne, you know what Lowell says, 'Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great. Hold fast to your ideals, Anne.

Everything that's worth having is some trouble - Anne Shirley

You couldn't really expect a person to pray very well the first time she tried, could you?

Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty aisy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade.

I've done my best and I begin to understand what is meant by the 'joy of the strife.' Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

faint heart never won fair lady as the Good Book says.