Quotes About Perseverance

Here John very helpfully, and very realistically, explains that a genuine purifying dryness may coexist with some elements of emotional problems, such as depression; nevertheless, if the concern to serve and please God persists in the midst of the difficulty, it is a sign of God's purifying work.

Realistically, Francis says, there will probably be falls along the way, but God can use even these to deepen our humility. Imperfections and venial sins cannot deprive us of spiritual life; it is lost only by mortal sin. Fortunately for us, in this war we are always victorious provided that we are willing to fight.27

You know, Son, sometimes a fellow has to take a licking for doing the right thing. A licking only lasts a short while, even if it's a hard one, but failing to do the right thing will often make a mark on a man that will last forever.

You know, a man's life is a lot like a boat. If he keeps his sail set right it doesn't make too much difference which way the wind blows or which way the current flows. If he knows where he wants to go and keeps his sail trimmed carefully he'll come into the right port. But if he forgets to watch his sail till the current catches him broadside he's pretty apt to smash up on the rocks.

You should not allow yourself the luxuries of discouragement of despair. Bounce back immediately, and welcome the adversity because it produces harder thinking and harder drive to get to the objective.

Writing is wretched, discouraging, physically unhealthy, infinitely frustrating work. And when it all comes together it's utterly glorious." National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) Pep Talk

Lee was tough as hickory, but the tree was old.

He had learned long ago that dying was not hard. The harder course was to defy the odds, to endure life's torments stoically.

They exit the womb in survival mode and continue to struggle that way until they die.

We haven't been in Afghanistan for ten years. We've been in Afghanistan one year, ten times.

she had lived through wars, death, marriages, and every other human travail and

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer

We are parlor soldiers. The rugged battle of fate, where strength is born, we shun.

Discontent is want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.

Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave, or they are no better than dreams.

We judge a man's wisdom by his hope.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Every great achievement is the victory of a flaming heart.