Quotes about Perseverance
'Mean to' don't pick no cotton.
— Anonymous
The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.
— Anonymous
God hasn't called me to be successful. He's called me to be faithful.
— Mother Teresa
Too much happens ... Man performs, engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
— William Faulkner
Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.
— Anonymous
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation.
— Abraham Lincoln
It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.
— Teresa of Avila
Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
— Duke Ellington
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.
— Charles Spurgeon
A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure.
— Anonymous
Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.
— Lou Holtz