Wednesday, 16 June 2010

6. Perseverance

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Hebrews 12:1

I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. > Thomas Edison

He that has patience can have all that he will. > Benjamin Franklin

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. > Charles H. Spurgeon

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast withers rapidly; that which grows slowly endures. > J. G. Holland

Victory belongs to the most persevering. > Napoléon Bonaparte

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. He that shall walk, with vigour, three hours a day, will pass, in seven years, a space equal to the circumference of the globe. > Samuel Johnson

There are two ways of attaining an important end – force and perseverance. Force falls to the lot only of the priviledged few, but austere and sustained perseverance can be practiced by the most insignificant. Its silent power grows irresistible with time. > Madame Swetchine

The conditions of the conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back. > William Gilmore Simms

It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere. > Charles the Bold

No road is too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; and no honours are too distant for the man who prepares himself for them with patience. > Jean de La Bruyère

The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize. > Richard Milnes

See also Romans 5:1-5; James 1:2-4; 2 Peter 1:5-9.

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