Quotes about Perseverance

What can't be helped must be endured.

She mourns for the future, as the past has taught her. And yet there is a rejoicing in her, persistent and unbidden as the beating of her heart.

Those who will not learn in plenty to keep their place must learn it by their need when they have had their way and the fields spurn their seed. We have failed Thy grace. Lord, I flinch and pray, send Thy necessity. We Who Prayed and Wept, p. 211.

You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

Troy went into debt and bought his new equipment because he didn't want to be held back by demanding circumstances.

She was going about her life, taking her pleasures as she found them, suffering what was hers to suffer, doing what she had to do. She had about her no air of self-pity or complaint. And this could only have been because, in her own heart, she was not pitying herself or complaining.

Whatever happens, those who have learned to love one another have made their way to the lasting world and will not leave, whatever happens.

The healing that is ours and nature's will come if we are willing, if we are patient, if we know the way, if we will do the work.

We must take love to the limit of time, because time can not limit it. A life cannot limit it. Maybe to have it in your heart all your life in this world, even while it fails here, is to succeed. Maybe that is enough.

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.

Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.