Quotes about Perseverance

God was interested not in success, but in obedience. If one obeyed God and was willing to suffer defeat and whatever else came one's way, God would show a kind of success that the world couldn't imagine. But this was the narrow path, and few would take it.

Wilberforce's time at Cambridge over two hundred years ago sounds extraordinarily like the experience of many college students today.

Anyone who perseveres in his sin receives judgement. The church cannot loose the penitent from sin without arresting and binding the impenitent in sin.

Wilberforce could put her at ease. Some, he writes to her, "are thrown into public, some have their lot in private life…. It would merit no better name than desertion…if I were thus to fly from the post where Providence has placed me.

The only fight which is lost is that which we give up.

Taken all together, it's difficult to escape the verdict that William Wilberforce was simply the greatest social reformer in the history of the world.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might.

Fireproof doesn't mean that a fire will never come, but that when it comes you'll be able to withstand it.

Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as a containing fence, they become your excuse for failure. If you look at them as a hurdle, each one strengthens you for the next.

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will--we all do. If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win.

When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.