Quotes About Perseverance

Our brief, little life here on Earth represents the only time in all of eternity when we can glorify God in the midst of struggle.

Our greatest need from God isn't for Him to change our circumstances but for Him to use our circumstances to change us.

The Lord was with Joseph, and Joseph remained forgotten for two years. Both were equally true.

Wayne Thomas Batson

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.

Wayne Am I supposed to be a man, am I supposed to say, it's OK, I don't mind. I don't mind. Well I mind I mind big time And you know what the worst part is I NEVER LEARNED TO READ.

I would set my course that instant not for the nearest but the farthest star.

They must have pumped him full of some high-test elephant tranquilizer, considering how tough it was for Paolo to return to the land of the living.

If the mind's not strong, the body acts weak, even if it's not. If the mind says it's too cold or too rainy or too windy to run, the body will be more than happy to agree. If the mind says it would be better to rest or recover or cut practice, the body will be glad to oblige.

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

A mind that has confronted ruin for years Is half or more a ruined mind.

I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.

Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Christianity is a battle, not a dream.

In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.

Tell My children, that there is never a testimony without first a TEST. "And that there is always a test before a promotion," He said softly. "The greater the test; the greater the promotion. "Oh, tell My children not to give up, beloved. "No matter how fierce the trial gets. Never give up.

Then she compared the work we did to the peeling of an onion: "It takes a long time, and we peel the layers slowly, incrementally, transparent layers, around and around, peeling until we get to the core," then she smiled, "and there are always tears." (141)

In a rush, Joan and Timothy and the log cabin and the prayers and even those tough little pieces of beachglass came into my mind, reminding me that the point is to endure, not to break. (71)

Wendy Corsi Staub

capable heart. As has happened countless times, he lost me for months on end and not only never complained, he immersed himself in the story, escorted and supported me, provided me with endless pots of tea and emergency gin and tonics. Sorry for the nightmares. Wendy Holden

He saw Hercules in the movie theater time after time, hour after hour, examining Park, judging him, admiring him, and, ultimately, promising himself that one day he, Arnold Schwarzenegger, then thirteen years old and poor as he was, would be like him, would even surpass Reg Park.