Quotes about Perseverance

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches. We must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.

I firmly believe in luck. And I noticed: the more I work, the luckier I become.

If you find yourself at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.

Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.

Laziness and cowardice are two of the greatest enemies of the spiritual life.

Hope is proportionate to detachment. It brings our souls into the state of the most perfect detachment. In doing so, it restores all values by setting them in their right order. Hope empties our hands in order that we may work with them. It shows us that we have something to work for, and teaches us how to work for it.

We should not, however, judge the value of our meditation by "how we feel." A hard and apparently fruitless meditation may in fact be much more valuable than one that is easy, happy, enlightened and apparently a big success.

This, then, is our desert: to live facing despair, but not to consent. To trample it down under hope in the Cross. To wage war against despair unceasingly. That war is our wilderness.

But true faith must be able to go on even when everything else is taken away from us.