Quotes about Perseverance

We need people who will go, and stay until the end.

God wants us to have soft hearts and hard feet. The trouble with so many of us is that we have hard hearts and soft feet.

The disadvantage of short term is a wrong perspective based on this generation's need for instant results.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

By the power of faith every enduring work is accomplished.

Without temptation the soul cannot grow.

The human will, that force unseen, The offspring of a deathless soul, Can hew the way to any goal, Though walls of granite intervene.

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.

He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much. He who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly.

A nation will not be moved by timid methods.