Quotes About Perseverance

Lincoln admitted his infirmities to make way for his spring.

Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.

It was as simple as walking and as hard as walking on with so far gone and so far yet to go.

Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they've tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked

Life is a process--just one thing after another. When you lose it, just start again.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

A scholar must not only be capable of hard, often totally resultless work - he must actually relish it.

Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn't work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right just before they go on to the next one.

Virginia Stauffer

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

We have lost our faith in the powers that brought us this far—the powers of will, imagination, effort, and community.

Trouble seemed to follow me around. The late Tim Russert, my friend and the esteemed moderator of NBC's Meet the Press, once joked, "Richard, just don't come to Washington.

He who may have failed back there has his chance to make good here;

Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.

And in the deepest recesses of his being, Dorrigo Evans understood that all his life had been a journeying to this point when he had for a moment flown into the sun and would now be journeying away from it forever after.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

What I know is, you have a better chance in life-of surviving it-if you tolerate loss well;manage not to be a cynic through it all;... to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good,even if the good is not simple to find. We try, as my sister said. We try.

Trilobites survived for a total of three hundred million years, almost the whole duration of the Palaeozoic era: who are we johnny-come-latelies to label them as either 'primitive' or 'unsuccessful'? Men have so far survived half a per cent as long. There

I doubt whether there would be many readers for a post-holocaust novel that was concerned with the hero's desperate search for a mite. But alas for the world if the mites and their diminutive allies failed to prosper!

We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.

Just when all seems to be going right, challenges often come in multiple doses applied simultaneously. When those trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more. He therefore gives you experiences that stimulate growth, understanding, and compassion which polish you for your everylasting benefit.