Quotes About Perseverance

The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view from top every time when you finally get there.

It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled," he argued. "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again . . . who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

He would say, 'I have a strong wife, you know, people don't realize how strong Ruth is.

Though it is hard to wait on God, and though it sometimes seems to us that God is slow, God's timing is always perfect. He is never late. He always acts at just the right time.

He chose to live by faith—not the kind of faith that believed God would miraculously show up and shield them from harm, but faith that God would preserve them through harm. Habakkuk shows us that living by faith means banking our hope on God no matter what happens in this life.

Everyone's ride must end. The free make the most of it. The sour leave disappointed. The stars light the way to the heavens, and in the blink of an eye, it all begins again.

We are defined by how we react to setbacks.

When I said no, she stood in the light. When I gave up, she said 'forever'.

Sometimes the hardest thing you have to do is fight when you'd rather just give up. You can't give up. No matter what. Not even if your heart is breaking. Not even if everything and everyone you love has been taken from you. You must keep going. Because sometimes, the fight is all you have.

My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.

It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.

You think intelligence and grit can succeed by themselves, but I'm telling you that's a pretty illusion.

You must not let them bother you, Leisha," he said in his wonderful accent. "Not ever. There is an old Asian proverb: 'The dogs bark but the caravan moves on.' You must never let your individual caravan be slowed by the barking of rude or envious dogs.

This world is made of darkness and light, my girl, and in the darkest times you have to believe the sun will come again, even if you yourself don't live to see it.

On good days I felt like a chrysalis from which a butterfly had emerged, and on bad days I felt like a chewing-gum wrapper someone had thrown in the hedges.

She felt her future close upon her but unseen, like the sea behind the blowing veil of snow... She would follow Llyr's advice and face it a little every day...Day by day, step by step life would go forward. Eventually, the veil would lift, the cold would yield to the sun's warmth, and the world would be reborn. This dark time would pass.

My candle burns at both ends;   It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—   It gives a lovely light!

He fought for his very survival. If he fought dirty sometimes that does not diminish the fact that he refused to give up.

Overcomers are not perfect. They fail just like the rest of us, but they keep on getting up, keep on repenting, and keep on being willing to surrender themselves to Christ and letting Him, who is the only perfect One, work through them.

God's Love is a Love that keeps on loving even when the object of that Love ceases to please or even tries to stop that Love from coming.

Though everything in my life is upside down, and I don't understand a thing that You are doing, I will still hope in Your Love and faithfulness.

If we put God into a box built by our own human understanding, we'll never be able to endure the trials of our faith.

if God used the "way of suffering" in Jesus' life to accomplish His will, then it's reasonable to expect that He will use our trials and our suffering to accomplish His will in our lives also.

Romans 4:18, "hope against hope.