Quotes About Steadfastness

Maar hier staan Klipman, hy't niks oorgekom van dit nie. En hierie man van my, dink ek terwyl ek grot toe loop, is 'n annerlike man, want vuur en klip is nie owerste oor hom nie, nee. Dis annersom. Hy is die owerste oor vuur en klip, ahê". Klipman se arm is nog steeds om my, hy hou my nog allie tyd vas. Sal nie weer teensukkel teen hom nie, dink ek. Hy't my nou mooi saggebak. Ek is nou 'n gaar skilpadjie, hy kan my maar afdop.

Truth is no Apollo Belvedere, no formal thing. The wave may go over it if it likes. Know that it will be there when it says, "I shall be there when the wave has gone by.

Success doesn't come from what you do occasionally; it comes from what you do consistently.

He who lives with his senses well controlled, moderate in his food and drink, he will not be overthrown, any more than the wind throws down a rocky mountain.

He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.

Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

There was an art to living, and sometimes it required the inexorable, relentless resolve just to keep plowing forward, one step at a time, no matter what the hell it was you were doing.

consistency is a state of mind that, once achieved, won't allow you to "be" any other way.

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.

Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.

The dwarf stood his ground.

Our motto must be, "Non-Resistant Persistence.

Nothing could stop you. Not the best day. Not the quiet. Not the ocean rocking. You went on with your dying. —

In all other things I will yield to any one, but I neither can nor will forsake and deny the word.

Therefore we must be steadfast; we must be Constantines, stouthearted,13 and rocks, lest we "be carried about with every wind of doctrine" (Eph. 4:14).

That is, as he says here, he should bend off neither to the right hand nor to the left, but move forward straight and firmly in prosperity and adversity, in strength and weakness, in glory and shame, clinging faithfully and bravely to the Word of God alone.

Wherefore, O Christian, accept your destiny cheerfully, and form a steadfast resolution to bear unmurmuringly the bitterness of death. For it is a great merit to yield up one's life the life every man loves so well and submit with a ready and willing mind to the pangs of death.

You just had to keep going, day by day.

Love is not love, Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove.

I guess sometimes the ground can shift between your feet. Sometimes your footing slips. You stumble. And sometimes you grab what's close to you and hold on as tight as you can.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Though our feelings come and go, Gods love for us does not.

The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God's help to do just that.