Quotes About Perseverance

Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.

God, as a loving Father, will stretch our souls at times. The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched. . . . God will tutor us by trying us because He loves us, not because of indifference!

We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.

The Church has done many difficult things, and from these achievements one would not wish to detract. But all the easy things the Church has had to do have been done. From now on it is high adventure!

He knows that having put his hand to the plow he must not look back, because when we are looking back, we are also holding back.

Faith in God includes faith in His timing.

To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken—all of these are deeply desired outcomes during the deliberate, divine tutorials which God gives to us—because He loves us.

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.

I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all time you see -- one has to keep oneself afloat.

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory. - Jósef Pi?sudski

A man who sets out to become an artist at the mile is something like a man who sets out to discover the most graceful method of being hanged. No matter how logical his plans, he can not carry them out without physical suffering.

Finally, Rønneberg, the leader of Gunnerside and the last surviving saboteur, who was ninety-six years old in 2016, often spoke eloquently about why he braved the North Sea to be trained in Britain and why he then returned, twice, by parachute, to Norway. "You have to fight for your freedom," he said. "And for peace. You have to fight for it every day, to keep it. It's like a glass boat; it's easy to break. It's easy to lose.

You have to fight for your freedom," he said. "And for peace. You have to fight for it every day, to keep it. It's like a glass boat; it's easy to break. It's easy to lose.

From the start, they had known that the odds of their survival were long. They might get inside the plant and complete their mission, but getting out and away would be another

The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.

Life can't be cured, but it can be managed.

That's all I can do. I'll keep at it and hope it gets better.

Again, keep everything.

Just because you find more work and problems on your path than you anticipated doesn't mean that you made a wrong choice or a mistake!

Whenever you begin to feel overwhelmed by the large, grand project that looms before you, remind yourself, "I can take one small step. One small step; one rough, rough draft; one imperfect sketch; one small hello. That's all I need to do now.

Although we were sent into a failing world, we were not sent to fail.

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.