Quotes about Perseverance
I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of.
— Frederick Douglass
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
— Frederick Douglass
The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
— Frederick Douglass
While I lived with my master in St. Michael's, there was a white young man, a Mr. Wilson, who proposed to keep a Sabbath school for the instruction of such slaves as might be disposed to learn to read the New Testament. We met but three times, when Mr. West and Mr. Fairbanks, both class-leaders, with many others, came upon us with sticks and other missiles, drove us off, and forbade us to meet again. Thus ended our little Sabbath school in the pious town of St. Michael's.
— Frederick Douglass
Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is timing. It wait on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
A young husband with an unfaithful wife, who is consecrated and dedicated to continence, eats daily of the Bread of Life so that the bride may one day return to both the home and the faith.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is timing, it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Him and then to find Him.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Purging trial, fidelities through storm, perseverance through mediocrities, and pursuit of Divine destiny through the allurements of earth.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Deferred joys purchased by sacrifice are always sweetest and most enduring.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
It takes eternity to make a man despair.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
We grow weary, of course, but God is unwearied in giving us new strength.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen