Quotes about Perseverance

So we do not lose heart… Because we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word "impossible." He knows all the rules which will not work. He knows all the things which cannot be done. This book was written for those who seek the rules which have made others successful, and are willing to stake everything on those rules.

God seems to throw Himself on the side of the man who knows exactly what he wants, if he is determined to get JUST THAT!

the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A quitter never wins—and a winner never quits. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work.

Joy isn't grounded in our circumstances; it is grounded in the unchanging character of God.

In my journal I logged this comment: On the day that I was officially a grown woman, I felt anything but feminine rather, befouled from the sweat of hard physical labor and the stinking mud. I wanted nothing so much as to sleep for a week.

I'm going to mess up. But I'm going to get back, you know, and get after it and try to do better the next day.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

When I started in 'Drag Race,' I didn't know anything about drag - my makeup was a mess, my hair was a mess, but I love what I was doing.

You just go out and do the best that you can. I think people feel that, and they embrace it, and it's a part of what makes Metallica special.