Quotes About Perseverance

Life's not some slot machine in an arcade with a sign that flashes up saying 'I'm sorry, you have been killed. Would you like another go?' But we might get put through the same test each time, get faced with the same situations until we've learned how to cope.

Living doesn't do you any good,' he replied. 'It kills us all.

We don't rise to the level of our abilities, we fall to the level of our excuses.

At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers.

He had a bullet in the arm—the nineth or tenth wound of his life—which had damaged the main nerve; but he seemed to rise above it. After a lengthy and painful operation, with only local anesthetics, he found it difficult to sleep, even with morphia;

The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because they continued to go after the little wanderer, like the Good Shepherd.

It is in the ardent revolutionist to whom the joys of art, of science, even of family life, seem bitter, so long as they cannot be shared by all, and who works despite misery and persecution for the regeneration of the world.

After forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark

And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.

So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his fatherís servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.

Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.

Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.

Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.

And although he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times, God has not allowed him to harm me.

As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacobís hip and dislocated it as they wrestled.

Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.

And the LORD was with Joseph, and he became a successful man, serving in the household of his Egyptian master.

So Josephís master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the kingís prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,

the LORD was with him and extended kindness to him, granting him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.

And the second son he named Ephraim, saying, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

The archers attacked him with bitterness; they aimed at him in hostility.