Quotes About Steadfastness

There is plenty of dignity in just holding on

The only way to guarantee failure is to quit.--Sue Cameron

I prefer to not be soft.

I'm as solid as a rock.

The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

It is only a mere fallacy to say you are quitting when your heartbeat is in tune with the beat. A real change is a real change!

Sometimes I think the greatest talent of all is perseverance.

But the Reb, I'd learned, was like a tough old tree; he bent with the storms but he would not snap.

If you are strong you withstand the storm. Can you see? The storm comes and everything is blurred. But all that is built on a solid foundation has only to stand fast and wait for the storm to pass.

For Ellid born of Eitha had a face like a flower for loveliness and a body like a doe for grace; her mind was steadfast as a sword and her spirit was bright as its skylit blade. Cuin

I looked up ivy in The Meanings of Flowers. The clinging vine stood for "fidelity.

Surely it's not too much to ask a little patience

There is no substitute for persistence. The person who makes persistence his watch-word, discovers that "Old Man Failure" finally becomes tired, and makes his departure. Failure cannot cope with persistence.

Failure cannot cope with persistence.

One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.

We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

'Never give in' was my mindset.

Patience is the best way to protect oneself.

Very well," said Oak, firmly, with the bearing of one who was going to give his days and nights to Ecclesiastes for ever.

There are men whose hearts insist upon a dogged fidelity to some image or cause thrown by chance into their keeping, long after their judgment has pronounced it no rarity—even the reverse, indeed, and without them the band of the worthy is incomplete.

Next day the weather was bad, but she trudged on, the honesty, directness, and impartiality of elemental enmity disconcerting her but little.

In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.

He manifested a resolution which amounted to sternness.