Quotes About Persistence

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

I read part of it all the way through.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Clear your mind of can't.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

Knock the "t" off the "can't."

Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.

example, "Love Finds a Way," pp.

A fish kept in a glass of water will live forever

I'd managed to type more than two hundred consecutive pages about more or less the same characters who stayed more or less in the same place and more or less took part in the same story.

It cost Christ and all His followers sharp showers and hot sweats ere they won to the top of the mountain. But still our soft nature would have heaven coming to our bedside when we are sleeping, and lying down with us, that we might go to heaven in warm clothes; but all that came there found wet feet by the way, and sharp storms that did take the hide off their face, and found tos and fros, and ups and downs, and many enemies by the way.

There is as much in our Lord's pantry as will satisfy all His bairns, and as much wine in His cellar as will quench all their thirst. Hunger on; for there is meat in hunger for Christ: go never from Him, but fash6 Him (who yet is pleased with the importunity of hungry souls) with a dishful of hungry desires, till He fill you; and if He delay yet come not ye away, albeit7 ye should fall a-swoon at His feet.

I never thought there had been need of so much wrestling to win to the top of that steep mountain as now I find.

I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in that precise way that I lay wait for him; he hath a gate [road] of his own.

Because the zest of life is effort, my son, not attainment.

What we cannot cure we must endure.

The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.