Quotes about Perseverance
A candle is at its brightest in the dark.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Let nothing disturb you nothing frighten you all things are passing God never changes.
- Teresa of Avila
Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Everyone faces defeat. It may be a stepping-stone or a stumbling block, depending on the mental attitude with which it is faced.
- Napoleon Hill
Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver
Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith.
- George Muller
A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted-the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.
- Francis de Sales
But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.
- Abraham Lincoln
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.
- Nelson Mandela
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
- Frederick Douglass
The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.
- Cicero