Quotes About Steadfastness

only a thin steel ring that cut the rocks in half. The rocks went on into the depth, unchanged. They began

He's that same kind of good like you are. Like there's some metal or something in you that won't melt down, no matter what.

No need to live in trouble until trouble comes.

History, for better and for worse, is made by those who never give up.

We are mortal, and the visage of failure is heinous to us. But we are not required to succeed. It is required of us only that we hold fast in every gale and let come what may.

El goteo del agua socava la piedra, no por la fuerza sino por la perseverancia. OVIDIO, POETA

nothing takes the place of persistence.

We start something and then we stop. When Dusan coaches his clients his recommendation is this: stop stopping.

stop stopping.

The man who is able to make a commitment rarely does this kind of dancing back and forth. He may move slowly, but he continues to move in the same direction.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty.

Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace.

Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That's how strong my love is.

Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.

For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human effort.

To press forward and hold it together when everyone else would understand if you broke down is the greatest strength

With this life, I give you stubbornness to keep going in the face of future troubles.

The ruin of his hopes leaves the steadfast man undismayed.

The essential thing "in heaven and earth" is . . . that there should be long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE, BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL

The emphasis of Psalm 125 is not on the precariousness of the Christian life but on its solidity. Living as a Christian is not walking a tightrope without a safety net high above a breathless crowd, many of whom would like nothing better than the morbid thrill of seeing you fall; it is sitting secure in a fortress.

The way of faith is not a fad that is taken up in one century only to be discarded in the next. It lasts. It is a way that works. It has been tested thoroughly.

re: Matthew 4) " 'Give in for now': what a strange thing for Jesus to say to a steadfast and protesting prophet; and yet what a comforting thing for those of us who cannot live in fiercely absolute ways. ... Jesus the Lord enters our life as it is and calls us not away but more deeply into it.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

We must be relentless and resilient.