Quotes About Steadfastness

Keep trying until you have no more chances left.

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou

Our miniscule action may seem equivalent to inaction. But the courage to held steady in this equivalence enables us to the be the political subject of this new era

The world is surprisingly hard to destroy.

Don't let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay its true color.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.

There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for a world where orphans are not poor and buildings comply with decent fire codes.

I am not affected or carried away by success or failure.

Don't get carried away when things go well, don't get carried away when they go badly.

There is always the need to carry on.

You must have a good structure, and not just change things based on pressure and need for a result.

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to the American people: Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible.

I'm just not no kid... I was always consistent with everything: school, sports, music, everything. I made sure. That's how I am.

You should never surrender, never give up.

I don't fold and surrender for nobody. That's just a fact.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. —MOTHER TERESA

Ma had been a tumbleweed too, holding on for as long as she could, then blowing away on the wind. My father was more like the sod. Steady, silent, and deep. Holding on to life, with reserves underneath to sustain him, and me, And anyone else who came near. My father stayed rooted, even with my tests and my temper, even with the double sorrow of his grief and my own, he had kept a home until I broke it.

You sure? Sure as two fists can be.

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!

Temptations will no more prevail over a contented man, than a dart that is thrown against a brazen wall.

Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy; for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves nor take away from themselves.

I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds of people in every profession-just unyielding.