Quotes about Perseverance

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

With The King Center as her base, my mother pressed on to fulfill a role that changed lives and legislation. She was a woman who refused to surrender the reigns of what she knew to be her assignment, even when male civil rights and business leaders tried to convince her that she should leave the work of building her husband's legacy to them.

Blacks must learn that true freedom from poverty is available only through hard work and perseverance, not through affirmative action programs, protesting, or blind allegiance to the Democratic party.

There is not other relation to God save that which appears upon the road along which Job travelled.

Durch das Leid hindurch, nicht am Leid vorbei, geht der Weg zur Freude.

A man who keeps on going; a man who keeps his eye on the ball.

To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.

Yet my great-grandfather was but a water-man, looking one way and rowing another: and I got most of my estate by the same occupation.

God is a dark night to man in this life.

Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.