Quotes About Perseverance

Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all

It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.

Flat and flexible truths are beat out by every hammer; But Vulcan and his whole forge sweat to work out Achilles his armour.

The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.

Everywhere you look, the ground is already camped on. So you sigh and pitch your tent where you can, knowing someone else has been there before.

To learn what I know I have burned more midnight oil than you have drunk wine.

Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Work is the grand cure for all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

Every noble crown is, and on earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

The Everlasting Yea.

Work alone is noble.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

No pressure, no diamonds.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.