Quotes About Perseverance

We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funeral tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

Perserverence is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.

Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.

Yung man, don't grind yure scythe all on one side!

The hardest thing that enny man kan do iz tew fall down on the ice when it iz wet, and get up and praze the Lord.