Quotes about Perseverance
There's not a lot of short quarterbacks in the league, but I think there's more guys paving the way for the transition of not really caring about how big you are, how tall you are.
— Kyler Murray
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
— Sojourner Truth
We have all been thrown down so low that nobody thought we'd ever get up again; but we have been long enough trodden now; we will come up again, and now I am here.
— Sojourner Truth
Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me.
— Sojourner Truth
her unwavering confidence in an arm which she believed to be stronger than all others combined could have raised from her sinking spirit.
— Sojourner Truth
I'm not going to die, honey. I'm going home like a shooting star.
— Sojourner Truth
I am not going to die; I'm going home like a shooting star.
— Sojourner Truth
And do ye tell it to those who come after you, how amid swords and deserts and wild beasts, chastity was never captive: and how a man devoted to Christ may die, but cannot be defeated.
— St. Jerome
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
— St. Augustine
Press on where truth begins to dawn.
— St. Augustine
O crooked paths! Woe to the audacious soul, which hoped, by forsaking Thee, to gain some better thing! Turned it hath, and turned again, upon back, sides, and belly, yet all was painful; and Thou alone rest.
— St. Augustine
I panted after honors, gains, marriage; and thou deridedst me. In these desires I underwent most bitter crosses, Thou being the more gracious, the less Thou sufferedst aught to grow sweet to me, which was not Thou.
— St. Augustine