Quotes about Perseverance
The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Carry the cross patiently, and with perfect submission and in the end it shall carry you.
— Thomas a Kempis
All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.
— Thomas a Kempis
Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.
— Thomas a Kempis
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.
— Thomas a Kempis
Fight like a man. Habit is overcome by habit.
— Thomas a Kempis
God often grants in a moment what He has long denied.
— Thomas a Kempis
It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self.
— Thomas a Kempis
Look at our fathers in the old days, living masterpieces as they are and shining examples of true religion; and see how feeble our own achievement is, almost nothing. Heaven help us, what is our life in comparison with theirs? Holy people these, true friends of Christ, that could go hungry and thirsty in God's service; cold and ill-clad, worn out with labors and vigils and fasting, with praying and meditating on holy things, with all the persecutions and insults they endured.
— Thomas a Kempis
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful and all things are possible.
— Thomas a Kempis
Who struggles more than those who strive to overcome themselves?
— Thomas a Kempis
Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.
— Thomas a Kempis