Inspirational Quotes on Perseverance

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.”

“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”

“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”

“The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying”

“When I have and failed, I shall have failed.”

“He who can have patience can have what he will.”

“No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!”

“Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.”

“We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!”

“Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us his way, that we may tread it; he wills also to guide us in the more fundamental sense of ensuring that, whatever happens, whatever mistakes we may make, we shall come safely home. Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be caught, rescued, restored. This is God's promise; this is how good he is.”

“O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all!”

“the difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't”

“Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.”

“Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.”

“You see, it is so hard for these creatures to persevere. The routine of adversity, the gradual decay of youthful loves and youthful hopes, the quiet despair (hardly felt as pain) of ever overcoming the chronic temptations with which we have again and again defeated them, the drabness which we create in their lives and the inarticulate resentment with which we teach them to respond to it--all this provides admirable opportunities of wearing out a soul by attrition.”

“The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character.”

“Maybe not, maybe not. Cheer up, Becky, and let's go on trying.”

“He would never exhort the faithful to persevere if he were not ready to give them the power to do so.”

“He will unfailingly be pleased with our patience and take note of our diligence and perseverance.”