Quotes About Perseverance

At every step of this moving upward into larger life, from seed to man, pain is seen to be an attendant fact. The seed or bird or man could well say, "Thank you pain; by you I have come into higher, larger life."

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The road to success is filled with women pushing their husbands along.

I ain't stopping for nobody. I got work to do and I'm gonna do it

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.

You've got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel

Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.

When you find a chillness upon your souls, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply yourselves with warm clothes, get those good books that may acquaint you with such truths as may warm and affect your hearts.

The worst that God does to His children is to whip them to heaven.

Neither deficiencies nor disappointments, losses nor crosses, can cause disquieting discontents in that bosom where faith is commander in chief.

There are no sins God's people are more subject to than unbelief and impatience.

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

An upright man is always worth beholding—but then he is most to be admired when like a bright star, he shines in the dark, and having lost all, he holds fast his integrity.

The tree of the promise will not drop its fruit unless shaken by the hand of prayer.

The holiness of the saints will not excuse them from sufferings.

As David's three worthies ventured their lives, and brake through the host of the Philistines for water, 2 Sam. xxiii. 46, — Such a kind of violence must we use, breaking through all dangers for obtaining the 'water of life.

A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he leads justice to victory." Matthew 12:20

Every cross, to a child of God, is like Paul's cross wind, which, though it broke the ship, it brought Paul to shore upon the broken pieces.

Thomas Watson

The ship which lies at anchor may sometimes be a little shaken—but never sinks; flesh and blood may have its fears and disquiets—but grace keeps them afloat. A Christian, having cast anchor in heaven, his heart never sinks.

Affliction may leap on us as the viper did on Paul, but at last it shall be shaken off.

After a bitter pill, God gives sugar.