Quotes about Steadfastness
He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defense; I shall not be moved.
— Anonymous
His heart is as firm as a stone; yea as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.
— Anonymous
O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.
— Charles Spurgeon
On a planet that has given in... you must prepare to be very strong.
— Madeleine L'Engle
You must once and for all give up being worried about successes and failures. Don't let that concern you. It's your duty to go on working steadily day by day, quite quietly, to be prepared for mistakes, which are inevitable, and for failures.
— Madeleine L'Engle
ADAMANT (A'DAMANT) n.s.[adamas, Lat. from Gr. that is, insuperable, infrangible.]1. A stone, imagined by writers, of impenetrable hardness. So great a fear my name amongst them
— Samuel Johnson
The word 'hope' I take for faith; and indeed, hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.
— John Calvin
because life is not stable except by faith. Let
— John Calvin
Although the wicked rise up against us with violence, let us be of a bronze countenance, as Ezekiel says (3:8 f.). Let
— John Calvin
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.
— John Calvin
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You cannot fail unless you quit.
— Abraham Lincoln