Quotes about Perseverance

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.

Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.

Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them … But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.

Elisabeth Elliot is more precise when she explains that "freedom and discipline have come to be regarded as mutually exclusive, when in fact freedom is not at all the opposite, but the final reward, of discipline.

We must, however, reaffirm what we know to be true, even when we don't feel it to be true. This will help us to live more by faith than by feelings.

Freedom through discipline is the idea behind what has become known as "the ten-thousand-hour rule."

From biblical times to our time, godly people have always been spiritually disciplined people.

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be."

He lost himself in visions of work to be done, that always remained to be done.

But don't stop worshiping. Never give up in the desert. You don't know how wide it is, and you may be almost across.