Quotes about Perseverance
Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.
— Frank Herbert
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
I like winning, it just takes longer
— Frank Peretti
That's life,and I can't deny it/Many times I thought of cuttin' out but my heart won't buy it.
— Frank Sinatra
An exhortation from one beggar to another: keep sacrificing. Keep losing. Keep laying your life down. Keep loving your enemies. Keep blessing those who despise you. Keep refusing to return fire upon those who bad-mouth you. Keep pouring your life into others, even if those people never acknowledge it and even if others never notice. Keep faithfully serving your Lord without looking back. Why? Because there is One who is watching. And only His opinion matters.
— Frank Viola
O Lord, give us faith. Give us faith in Thee; faith in our sons; faith in each other; faith in our united crusade. Let not the keeness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment -- let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
— Frederick Buechner
How many times in her life had she been faced with the same Sisyphean task?
— Brandilyn Collins
What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuffed to the fleshpots and wandered into a far county. Yet, they kept coming back to Jesus.
— Brennan Manning
Jesus was victorious not because he never flinched, talked back, or questioned, but having flinched, talked back, and questioned, he remained faithful.
— Brennan Manning
It is for the inconsistent, unsteady disciples whose cheese is falling off their cracker.
— Brennan Manning