Quotes about Perseverance
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
— St. Augustine
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
— Francis de Sales
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
— Francis de Sales
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
— Francis de Sales
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
— Francis de Sales
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
— Saint Jerome
Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.
— Saint Jerome
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
— Saint Jerome
The Roman world is falling, yet we hold our heads erect instead of bowing our necks.
— Saint Jerome
Those who risk all for God will find that they have both lost all and gained all
— Teresa of Avila
He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
— Samuel Beckett
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
— Samuel Beckett