Inspirational Quotes on Perseverance

“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.”

“Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.”

“True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.”

“Do you wish to become rich? You may become so if you desire it in no half-way, but thoroughly. Do you wish to master any science or accomplishment? Give yourself to it and it lies beneath your feet. This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.”

“Life, like war, is a series of mistakes, and he is not the best Christian nor the best general who makes the fewest false steps. Poor mediocrity may secure that, but he is best who wins the most splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes.”

“Let a man begin with an earnest "I ought," and if he perseveres, by God's grace he will end in the free blessedness of "I will." Let him force himself to abound in small acts of duty, and he will, by and by, find them the joyous habit of his soul.”

“How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.”

“Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.”

“Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.”

“Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.”

“The resolved mind hath no cares.”

“You must lose a fly to catch a trout.”

“A great ship asks deep water.”

“Help thyself, and God will help thee.”

“The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.”

“To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.”

“This is a sane, wholesome, practical, working faith: That it is a man's business to do the will of God; second, that God himself takes on the care of that man; and third, that therefore that man ought never to be afraid of anything.”

“I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming. Thousands and tens of thousands of times have my prayers been answered. When once I am persuaded that a thing is right and for the glory of God, I go on praying for it until the answer comes. George Mueller never gives up!”

“To persevere in one's duty and be silent, is the best answer to calumny.”

“I shall never ask, never refuse, nor ever resign an office.”