Quotes About Perseverance

Breslin said every story is five flights up. You want the story, you climb the

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The forces of hell will not annihilate the Christian faith.

Rather than clinging close to the Lord, and resolve by the grace and power of God to do better than those who have fallen, and even to help restore them, they will use anything as an excuse to stop serving God and doing what he requires of them.

But if God does not see fit to manifest entire deliverance at this time, then the person must honor God by his suffering and perseverance.

do your best to avoid unnecessary persecution, but never compromise.

I have fought sixty battles, and I assure you that I have learned nothing from all of them that I did not know in the first.

We always try but we fail, be persistent.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Great things are done by a seris of small things brought together.

Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.

I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again; I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

I feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I will make something good every day , on a regular basis....I am doing my very best to make every effort because I am longing so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things mean painstaking work, disappointment, and perseverance.

If I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.

That is how I look at it; to continue, to continue, that is what is necessary.

Well, right now it seems that things are going very badly for me, have been doing so for some considerable time, and may continue to do so well into the future. But it is possible that everything will get better after it has all seemed to go wrong. I am not counting on it, it may never happen, but if there should be a change for the better I should regard that as a gain, I should rejoice, I should say, at last! So there was something after all!

Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer to that, I have done some things even more hurriedly theses last few days.