Quotes about Persistence

sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having

Only those who never step, never stumble.

Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just one step of faith after another.

We climb mountains because the valleys are full of cemeteries. The secret of survival is to climb, even in the dark, even when the climb seems pointless. The climb, not the summit, is the thing. And the great don't just climb mountains, they carve them as they go. Korczak

They tried to bury us. They just didn't know we were seeds.

Truth is patient. It can afford to be, for eventually it will have its way.

So at last when I believed Christianity was dead, I said, "Even so, I will believe in it, and I will weep at its tomb until it rises again, as it surely will.

Philippians 1:6: "Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

Willpower works for a few weeks, or maybe a month or two at best.

Ignoring a temptation is far more effective than fighting.

your own. You have probably tried to change many times and have failed to maintain the changes.

Once again, God has a purpose. A desire. A goal. And God never stops pursuing it. Jesus tells a series of parables in Luke 15 about a woman who loses a coin, a shepherd who loses a sheep, and a father who loses a son. The stories aren't ultimately about things and people being lost; the stories are about things and people being found. The God that Jesus teaches us about doesn't give up until everything that was lost is found. This God simply doesn't give up. Ever.