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Quotes About Persistence

He would never exhort the faithful to persevere if he were not ready to give them the power to do so.
~ Francis de Sales
He will unfailingly be pleased with our patience and take note of our diligence and perseverance.
~ Francis de Sales
Real patience is not the same as waiting impatiently for something for a long time. Patience is having patience with patience.
~ H.M. Forester
Grant me the wisdom to know when to keep trying and when to stop wasting time, the patience to keep going with the 1st, and the courage & serenity to let go of the 2nd.
~ Jay Woodman
The only thing you have to have is patience and an attitude that you aren't ever going to give up.
~ Shawn Michaels
Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
~ Thomas Huxley
Patience is learned through waiting
~ E'yen A. Gardner
I have enough patient to wait for the fulfillment of my wishes.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
~ Chinese proverb
Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.
~ Ralph Abernathy
God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.
~ Bayard Rustin
Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
The Heart Break Kid does not rest in peace. He can stay up ALL NIIIGHT!
~ Shawn Michaels
I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
~ Studs Terkel
To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am.
~ M. C. Escher
Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
If you pursue happiness you never find it.
~ C.P. Snow
Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.
~ Florynce Kennedy
Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.
~ Christopher Hitchens
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
~ Samuel Johnson
Songwriting is the way of perpetual want. Songwriters are the blessed/cursed people. You will never have a moment's peace in your life. You will always be wanting the next song.
~ Jon Stewart
I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.
~ Abraham Lincoln
I'm not one to sit and wallow - I would rather figure out a way around so I can move past it and be at peace with things. I don't like bad feelings gnawing away at me.
~ Sarah McLachlan
Peace is never a perfect achievement.
~ Kofi Annan