Quotes about Perseverance

We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter; we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better. So when I go to sleep I turn everything over to the Lord and forget it.

An hour of pain is as long as a day of pleasure.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

For me, at least, there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph: keep the fire burning until, by and by, out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result.

By perseverance the snails reached the ark.

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

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.