Quotes about Perseverance

I will bend, I will touch the ground, or as close to it as I can get without rupture. I will lay a wreath of invisible money on her grave.

How long do you expect me to wait while you cauterize your senses, one after another turning yourself to an impervious glass tower?

This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that, I can do nothing. I have to recant, give up the old belief that I am powerless and and because of it nothing I can do will ever hurt anyone. A lie which was always more disastrous than the truth would have been.

You can see it in her eyes: I am not there. But she exists, in her white dress. She grows and lives. Isn't that a good thing? A blessing? Still, I can't bear it, to have been erased like that.

I need to keep pressing on until I am thoroughly thankful.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

So next time you feel like your world is about to end, I hope you studied because He's testing your faith again.

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.

If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.

I believe the prayers of 30 years ago are not lost. We may not see the results of our labour or sacrifice immediately, but in due time they will produce much fruit.

I would fight for my liberty so long as my strength lasted, and if the time came for me to go, the Lord would let them take me.

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.