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Quotes About Perseverance

Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
~ C. S. Lewis
I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have been defeated, you give power to the force that is trying to defeat you.
~ Maya Angelou
I don't have big muscles. I'm not tall. I have power inside. I fight.
~ Simona Halep
The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak.
~ Augustus Hare
Speeches pass away, but acts remain.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
People who avoid the brick walls - all power to ya, but we all have to hit them sometimes in order to push through to the next level, to evolve.
~ Jennifer Aniston
If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey.
~ Rufus Jones
Whatever it is, you have to show up for the job, and power through.
~ Priyanka Chopra
Never underestimate the power that one good workout can have on your mind. Keeping the dream alive is half the battle.
~ Kara Goucher
There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The trouble with dieting is that a pound of will power takes off only an ounce of weight.
~ Evan Esar
When any anxiety or gloom of the mind takes hold of you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaining; but exert yourselves to hide it, and by endeavoring to hide it you drive it away.
~ Samuel Johnson
Let us keep to Christ, and cling to Him, and hang on Him, so that no power can remove us.
~ Martin Luther
Commitment cannot be taught; it can only be caught. I refer to the crusading spirit. Without the crusading spirit, you may have the starting power but not the staying power.
~ Y. C. James Yen
If laser beams can cut through mountains, why should we doubt the power of prayer?
~ William Arthur Ward
If you are going into show business for money and power, forget it! It won't happen. You don't go for that first.
~ John Travolta
Although the power is lacking, the will is commendable.
~ Ovid
The oars game me power but also taught me humility.
~ Barry S. Strauss
The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
If I feel I can play a part I do everything in my power to try to play it.
~ Elizabeth McGovern
There is no need to be dismayed if love sometimes follows torturous ways. Grace has the power to make straight the paths of human love.
~ Pope John Paul II
Cultivate within yourselves the mighty power of self-discipline.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word
~ Harriet Ann Jacobs
You may lack will power, but that doesn't mean you can't take a lot of steps to make yourself more productive.
~ John Perry