Quotes About Steadfastness

I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.

This is a game that's going to play as long as you're playing it. It's never going to end. It'll go until I retire, and when the next person has the job, they'll be on it too.

Even though a lot of people keep trying to get me to retire, I won't.

I'm never retiring.

Retiring is the easy way out.

I never got to the point when I felt like running away from it all.

I'm not going to rush anything and scamper around like a mad person and make myself crazy.

I can't stop, I always have to try and keep a good pace and that's what I'll do.

One thing I'll never do is panic.

We make choices to trust God, to wait on God, to obey God, to stick with God, to remain faithful when everything in us wants to quit and run.

intransigence

Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.

Never retract, never explain, get things done and let them howl.

Not much can really shake me.

My strength is also my endurance. I can bear anything and everything.

I've been pilloried so many times that I begin to expect it now.

seen or unseen, in sun or clouds, broiling or frigid, it just sits, being itself. At times visited by violent storms, buffeted by snow and rain and winds of unthinkable magnitude, through it all the mountain sits.

I promised myself I wouldn't be the first to look away, but I was.

It's going to be a tedious business, but we will see it out.

Persistence trumps talent and looks every time.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

Patriotism is not a short outburst of emotion, but is the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.

Patience was not my strong point.