Quotes about Perseverance

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

When a king asked Euclid, the mathematician, whether he could not explain his art to him in a more compendious manner? he was answered, that there was no royal way to geometry.

Sweet are the uses of adversity,Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.Shak.As you like it. Concerning deliverance itself from all adversity

ADAMANT  (A'DAMANT)   n.s.[adamas, Lat. from Gr. that is, insuperable, infrangible.]1. A stone, imagined by writers, of impenetrable hardness. So great a fear my name amongst them

His wish still continued, but his hope grew less.

This iron world (the same he weeping says)Brings down the stoutest hearts to lowest state:For misery doth bravest minds abate.Spens.Hubberd's Tale.

I had learned that every circumstance in life doesn't have to end happily for the Lord to provide a happy ending.

What we could never become by strength, stamina, and a will of steel—which we lack anyway—we become by the grace of God.

Thanks to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right.

Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish with my country.

Christianity is not a sprint but an endurance run. Therefore it is not how we start the race that counts, but how we complete it. How we finish is determined by the choices we make, and those are often formed by patterns we develop along the way.