Quotes about Persistence

Nothing resists a human will that stakes its very existence upon the achievement of its purpose

The secret to success is constancy of purpose.

We receive by faith and we keep it by faith.

How do we wait? The Bible says very clearly that we are to be still.

Our attitude needs to be like Elisha's: "I'm not staying around here. I'm going beyond here to my double portion!

While people involved in religious forms of the flesh may believe they are taking sin seriously by persistently reminding people to stop doing it, they are actually trivializing sin by depicting it as something that can be overcome through behavior modification.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

There's too much at stake for you to let some little thing distract you and pull you down into defeat.

Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.