Quotes about Persistence
“No matter what, I want to run!” he replied. “Then run!” Joab told him. So Ahimaaz ran by way of the plain and outran the Cushite.
— 2 Samuel 18:23
and said, “Fill four waterpots and pour the water on the offering and on the wood.” “Do it a second time,” he said, and they did it a second time. “Do it a third time,” he said, and they did it a third time.
— 1 Kings 18:34
“Go and look toward the sea,” he said to his servant. So the servant went and looked, and he said, “There is nothing there.” Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.”
— 1 Kings 18:43
But when they pressed him to the point of embarrassment, he said, “Send them.” And they sent fifty men, who searched for three days but did not find Elijah.
— 2 Kings 2:17
So she set out and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel. When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, there is the Shunammite woman.
— 2 Kings 4:25
But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives, before whom I stand, I will not accept it.” And although Naaman urged him to accept it, he refused.
— 2 Kings 5:16
But the man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck the ground five or six times. Then you would have struck down Aram until you had put an end to it. But now you will strike down Aram only three times.”
— 2 Kings 13:19
The Israelites persisted in all the sins that Jeroboam had committed and did not turn away from them.
— 2 Kings 17:22
But they would not listen, and they persisted in their former customs.
— 2 Kings 17:40
Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD, saying,
— 2 Kings 20:2
Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.
— 1 Chronicles 16:11
In the third month they began building up the heaps, and they finished in the seventh month.
— 2 Chronicles 31:7