Quotes about Perseverance
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
— Thomas Monson
Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.
— Thomas Monson
When you find a chillness upon your souls, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply yourselves with warm clothes, get those good books that may acquaint you with such truths as may warm and affect your hearts.
— Thomas Watson
The worst that God does to His children is to whip them to heaven.
— Thomas Watson
Neither deficiencies nor disappointments, losses nor crosses, can cause disquieting discontents in that bosom where faith is commander in chief.
— Thomas Watson
Affliction promotes holiness. The more the diamond is cut, the more it sparkles!
— Thomas Watson
You may as well bid an elephant fly in the air, as a covetous man live by faith.
— Thomas Watson
An upright man is always worth beholding—but then he is most to be admired when like a bright star, he shines in the dark, and having lost all, he holds fast his integrity.
— Thomas Watson
The tree of the promise will not drop its fruit unless shaken by the hand of prayer.
— Thomas Watson
The holiness of the saints will not excuse them from sufferings.
— Thomas Watson
As David's three worthies ventured their lives, and brake through the host of the Philistines for water, 2 Sam. xxiii. 46, — Such a kind of violence must we use, breaking through all dangers for obtaining the 'water of life.
— Thomas Watson
A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he leads justice to victory." Matthew 12:20
— Thomas Watson