Quotes About Perseverance

At some point my need for a solution was replaced by the poetry of my continuous failure.

I could never free myself from the thought that Nature is that which is slowly killing me.

If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.

While you sit Like a rain puddle in hell Knitting the socks Of your life.

Johnson well says, "He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything." Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

Estas cosas les he hablado para que en Mí tengan paz. En el mundo tienen tribulación; pero confíen, Yo he vencido al mundo». JUAN 16.33, NBLH

If where winning spiritually, we're a winner.

Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?

It takes character to sit with all that cash and to do nothing. I didn't get top where I am by going after mediocre opportunities.

I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.

If something is too hard, we move on to something else. What could be simpler than that?

If you don't get this elementary, but mildly unnatural, mathematics of elementary probability into your repertoire, then you go through a long life like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.

It's the work on your desk. Do well with what you already have and more will come in.

It's not supposed to be easy. Anyone who finds it easy is stupid.

The only meaningful life is that which is deepened by carrying through these commitments, living through the dead periods in order to lay the foundations for the creative ones.

Hamish was like a trumpet in his head. "You will no' die. Do you hear me? You willna' die!" "You're already dead, Corporal. You can't stop me." Rutledge was finding it hard to concentrate. "You willna' die! I willna' let you die!

Today the concept of delayed gratification is seen as a denial of some inherent natural right

Dying goes on in the midst of life.

And after my imprisonment I could look back and