Quotes about Persistence
Whatever the mind sets itself on is what the man walks after.
— Watchman Nee
Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.
— Charles Kettering
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.
— Victor Hugo
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.
— Henry Ward Beecher
No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The secret of your success is hidden in your daily routine."[1]
— Terri Savelle Foy
He who flees will fight again...
— Tertullian
when something painful or disagreeable happens to me, instead of a melancholy look, I answer by a smile. At first I did not always succeed, but now it has become a habit which I am glad to have acquired.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
I must walk right up to my last moment.
— St. Therese of Lisieux