Quotes about Perseverance

Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.

Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

Hope is necessary in every condition.

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.

Whenever I find myself in the cellar of affliction, I always look about for the wine.

Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.

S]how yourself a Christian, by suffering without murmuring; - in patience possess your soul: they lose nothing who gain Christ.

You must learn to make your evils your great good; and to spin comforts, peace, joy, communion with Christ, out of your troubles, which are Christ's wooers, sent to speak for you from Himself.

Whenever I find myself in the cellar of affliction, I always looks around for the wine.

She is not sent away, but only sent before, like unto a star, which, going out of your sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere: ye see her not yet, she doth shine in another country.

We would either have a silent, a soft, a perfumed cross, sugared and honeyed with the consolations of Christ, or we faint; and providence must either brew a cup of gall and wormwood, mastered in the mixing with joy and songs, else we cannot be disciples. But Christ's cross did not smile on him, his cross was a cross, and his ship sailed in blood, and his blessed soul was sea-sick, and heavy even to death.