Quotes about Perseverance

People are so prone to lean upon gifted men. And if they cannot have such, they get discouraged and scattered, instead of getting lovingly together and helping one another by their mutual faith.

We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.

It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together.

The pain was on the surface, so it took all his will to reach upward. But maybe that's what God asked of man. To reach upward even when it's hard.

After a while, he went back to his task; he decided that pain was not a valid reason for stopping.

Feeling quiet and empty, he told himself that he would be all right tomorrow. He would forgive himself the weakness of this night, it was like the tears one is permitted at a funeral, and then one learns how to live with an open wound or with a crippled factory.

One doesn't get to be first in anything without the strength to make some sacrifices.

I think that it's a sin to sit down and let your life go, without making a try for it.

She wanted to tell him of the years she had spent looking for men such as he to work with; she wanted to tell him that his enemies were hers, that she was fighting the same battle...

The American story has never been about things coming easy. It has been about rising to the moment when the moment is hard. About rejecting panicked division for purposeful unity. About seeing a mountaintop from the deepest valley. That is why we remember that some of the most famous words ever spoken by an American came from a president who took office in a time of turmoil: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

There is no excuse for not trying.

Have you ever noticed that if there's a hard way and an easy way, you choose the hard way every time? Why do you think that is?