Quotes about Perseverance
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
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
— Samuel Johnson
Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us.
— Mary Baker Eddy
The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear the kind voice of friends and to say to one's self: "The work is done."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
We must act in spite of fear ... not because of it.
— Anonymous
Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.
— James A. Garfield