Quotes about Perseverance
Human life is every where a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
— Samuel Johnson
If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
— Samuel Johnson
Angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
— Samuel Johnson
When a king asked Euclid, the mathematician, whether he could not explain his art to him in a more compendious manner? he was answered, that there was no royal way to geometry.
— Samuel Johnson
Sweet are the uses of adversity,Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.Shak.As you like it. Concerning deliverance itself from all adversity
— Samuel Johnson
ADAMANT (A'DAMANT) n.s.[adamas, Lat. from Gr. that is, insuperable, infrangible.]1. A stone, imagined by writers, of impenetrable hardness. So great a fear my name amongst them
— Samuel Johnson
His wish still continued, but his hope grew less.
— Samuel Johnson
This iron world (the same he weeping says)Brings down the stoutest hearts to lowest state:For misery doth bravest minds abate.Spens.Hubberd's Tale.
— Samuel Johnson
I had learned that every circumstance in life doesn't have to end happily for the Lord to provide a happy ending.
— Sandra Byrd
What we could never become by strength, stamina, and a will of steel—which we lack anyway—we become by the grace of God.
— Scott Hahn
Thanks to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right.
— John Adams
Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish with my country.
— John Adams