Quotes about Perseverance

He said that most men were in their lives like the carpenter whose work went so slowly for the dullness of his tools that he had not time to sharpen them. Y

They struggled forever in the roads cold coagulate.

Dont let go. Okay. No matter what. No matter what.

When he reached the fence he stopped for a moment to look back at the road and then he went on, crossing into a field of rank weeds that heeled with harsh dip and clash under the wind as if fled through by something unseen.

It was defeat. It was being beaten. More bitter to him than death. You need to get over that, he said.

I knew that courage came with less struggle for some than for others but I believed that anyone who desired it could have it.

There wasn't any virtue in it. The drinking or the quittin? Either one. There aint no virtue in quittin what you aint able any longer to do in the first place.

All courage was a form of constancy. It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

You said that mathematics was mostly about hard work. But I'm still not sure how you go about it. Yes. The first thing you do it take off your shoes and socks. To have parallel access to base ten.

I know they was families got thowed off their farms back in the thirties by the TVA and come to Anderson County and got thowed off all over again. They was even families had been removed from their homesteads in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the thirties, TVA in the thirties again, and the atom bomb in the forties. By that time they didnt have nothin.

Don't worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don't have opposition, because you're probably not obeying God.

When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle.