Quotes about Perseverance

I think I could, if I only know how to begin." For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

Washington Irving once introduced Charles Dickens at a dinner given in the latter's honor. In the middle of his speech Irving hesitated, became embarrassed, and sat down awkwardly. Turning to a friend beside him he remarked, There, I told you I would fail, and I did. If you believe you will fail, there is no hope for you. You will.

We've learned that sometimes a lack of conflict in a marriage means you are not fighting for it. There are times you must battle to become one.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. —MARGARET THATCHER At

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The very winds that cause the eagle to soar later in life terrified it when it was an eaglet.

Battles are the proving grounds of what you already have put into practice.

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

Be present to those who, living in the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in spirit, tempted to give up, to leave school and to live on the streets.

It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.

Until you prevail with God, you cannot prevail with men; your victory has to be spiritual first, before it is physical.

Spiritual joy arises from purity of the heart and perseverance in prayer.