Quotes about Persistence
This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don't give up.
— Cormac McCarthy
It is not that I'm so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
— Albert Einstein
Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.
— Elisabeth Elliot
It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.
— Elisabeth Elliot
I don't pray when I'm in the mood anymore then I wash dishes when I'm in the mood. Pray 'til you feel like praying.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Pray when you feel like praying. Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you feel like praying.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Prayer never evaporates. It sets into motion forces as inexorable and perhaps as unhurriable as a glacier, but when the Lord's arm reaches down, no power in heaven or earth will frustrate him.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Much can be accomplished if you seek a heart of wisdom and walk diligently with God each and every day.
— Elizabeth George
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.
— Alice Hoffman
We can do more than pray, after we have prayed, but not until.
— Alistair Begg