Quotes About Perseverance

Hatred is one long wait.

If it were not for repentance and forgiveness, I would become discouraged and discontinue my labors.

Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it.

Happy the man who can count his sufferings.

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.

Better to suffer than to die.

The cut worm forgives the plow.

The Lord never tires of forgiving. It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness.

Our journey is demanding enough that the need for reassurance as well as reminders is constant.

But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.

She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.

Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory.

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Let me embrace thee sour adversity for wise men say it is the wisest course.

There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Him and then to find Him.

What strange perversity is it that induces a man to set his heart on doing those things which he has not succeeded in and makes him slight those in which his achievement has been respectable.

Bear and forbear.

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.