Quotes About Steadfastness

The secret was to let the monster bearing down on you know that you had a path and you were sticking to it. The secret was to take your time.

Patience is simply the mindset of saying "no thanks" to anxiety. – Unknown

He knew it the way he knew the earth was round and her eyes were blue and that two plus two would always always be four.

He is the kind of man we call mahogany trunk because the trunk of the mahogany tree is so strong that it never bends in a storm. I am not a storm. I am the thing that obeys.

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

Like hearts of oak.

ceasing. 1 THESSALONIANS

Patience . . . speaks of a person's steadfastness under provocation . . .enduring ill-treatment without anger or thought of retaliation or revenge.

The Christian's journey through life isn't a sprint but a marathon.

Patience includes perseverance—the ability to bear up under weariness, strain, and persecution when doing the work of the Lord.

Our job in life is not to be successful, but to be faithful.

Truth is timeless. Truth does not differ from one age to another, from one people to another, from one geographical location to another . . . the great all-prevailing Truth stands for time and eternity.

In times of difficulty, those brave enough to stay the course will be victors in the end.

The greatest ability is dependability.

The most important thing is to never give up." Adrian Esteban

When you're ready to quit, you're closer than you think.

If [we] have a good, miserable day once in a while, or several in a row, stand steady and face them. Things will straighten out. There is great purpose in our struggle in life.

he just never stopped believing. he never blinked once

This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to figure it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time.

The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want is the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.

The strength I'm looking for isn't the kind where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want is the kind of strength to be able to absorb that outside power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things—unfairness, misfortune, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings....

The strength I'm looking for isn't the kind where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want is the kind of strength to be able to absorb that outside power, to stand up to it. The strength to quietly endure things--unfairness, misfortune, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings. That's got to be the most difficult strength of all to make your own. I know....

The lesson I learned from this is that it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.

So if fitness is about persistence, then the apropos question is, The persistence of what?