Quotes about Perseverance
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
Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
— Victor Hugo
No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.
— Eleanor Roosevelt