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Quotes About Steadfastness

We gain nothing in this life apart from endurance, which involves two things—patience and time. Endurance means that I am willing to stay at my post— where God has placed me—until He tells me to move forward. It also means that no matter how hard life may become, I will follow wherever He leads.
~ Charles F. Stanley
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
~ Charles H. Spurgeon
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.
~ Author Unknown
I am constant to my purposes...
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Be thoroughly assured of the constancy of your disposition, and the solidity of your motives, before you totally engage in retirement.
~ Countess Dowager of Carlisle
Be a stone spiral staircase in a world full of escalators.
~ Keith Wynn, @ravens_rhapsody
went right to the spot, and would save putting up much else. Hannah shut her lips and tried to make the line of them look pleasant, but
~ Grace Livingston Hill
Genuine and lasting strength consists in bearing things.
~ Gustav Janouch
Know, all who see these lines, That this man, by his appetite for honor, By his steadfastness, By his love for his country, By his courage, Was one of the miracles of the god.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going.
~ Gwen Bristow
He preacheth patience that never knew pain.
~ H. G. Bohn
Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs. You can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by lies. So, hold on when there is nothing in you Except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Always stick to the story. It's when you started backtracking that gets you in trouble.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Always stick to the story. It's when you start backtracking that gets you in trouble.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
If you are going through hell, keep going. It doesn't matter how slow you go as long as you don't stop.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Now patience; and remember patience is the great thing, and above all things else we must avoid anything like being or becoming out of patience.
~ James Joyce
The Empire values dedication. Especially when it's unswerving.
~ James Luceno
Harden your heart.
~ James Patterson
Let's get one thing straight - there is a big difference between a quitter and someone who gives up. Unfortunately, I have the right to make this claim because I fit into the category of 'quitter.'
~ Jenna Morasca
My history has been to grow the roots as deeply as you can before going on to the next thing. That's why it took 10 years to go from Union Square Cafe to Gramercy Tavern, and another 10 years to go from Blue Smoke's first location to its second, and five to go from Shake Shack 1 to Shake Shack 2.
~ Danny Meyer
Then no matter what goes on around you in the physical universe, hang on to what you know.
~ Lindsay Wagner
You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.
~ Joan Didion
I have nothing Of woman in me; now from head to foot I am marble-constant.
~ William Shakespeare
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
~ Margaret Thatcher