Quotes about Perseverance
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime.
- George Eliot
Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God cannot use a man or woman greatly until he wounds them deeply.
- AW Tozer
Man must suffer to be wise.
- Cicero
The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.
- Jeremiah Burroughs
If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.
- John Lennon
To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a few carnal advantages, how apparent it is to them! They can see it through a little cranny.
- John Owen
I got kicked out of my church and lost all of my friends, but I realized that I had to obey God and not man.
- Joyce Meyer
Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.
- Euripides
A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet.
- Ezra Taft Benson