Quotes about Persistence
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
— Roy Bennett
Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
— Roy Bennett
Yet some there be that by due steps aspire to lay their just hands on that golden key that opens the palace of Eternity. To such my errand is.
— John Milton
This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up.
— Cormac McCarthy
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
— Albert Einstein
Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.
— Elisabeth Elliot
It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.
— Elisabeth Elliot
I don't pray when I'm in the mood anymore then I wash dishes when I'm in the mood. Pray 'til you feel like praying.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Pray when you feel like praying. Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you feel like praying.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Prayer never evaporates. It sets into motion forces as inexorable and perhaps as unhurriable as a glacier, but when the Lord's arm reaches down, no power in heaven or earth will frustrate him.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Much can be accomplished if you seek a heart of wisdom and walk diligently with God each and every day.
— Elizabeth George
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson