Quotes about Perseverance
An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
— George Eliot
One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Pray if thou canst with hope, but ever pray, though hope be weak or sick with long delay; pray in the darkness if there be no light; and if for any wish thou dare not pray, then pray to God to cast that wish away.
— Anonymous
When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide.
— Anonymous
In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed.
— CS Lewis
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.
— Booker T. Washington
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.
— Abraham Lincoln
Luck ... taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody's door, but if industry does not open it, luck goes away.
— Charles Spurgeon
As you go along your road in life, you will, if you aim high enough, also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem, have courage still-and persevere.
— Madeleine Albright
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
— Benjamin Disraeli
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
— Robert Louis Stevenson