Quotes About Perseverance

The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

Guidance is not attained except with knowledge and correct direction is not attained except with patience.

Good things come to those who hustle

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

Good things come to those who wait.

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly.

Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion.

Do not be surprised that you fall every day; do not give up, but stand your ground courageously. And assuredly, the angel who guards you will honour your patience.

Rely on the ordinary virtues that intelligent, balanced human beings have relied on for centuries: common sense, thrift, realistic expectations, patience, and perseverance.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

Without patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.

End of Construction - Thank you for your patience.

Without patience, you will never conquer endurance.

Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life--he is a man indeed!

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

You need to learn patience, you grasshopper

Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything - God alone suffices.

Had it pleas'd heaven To try me with affliction * * * I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience.