Muriel Spark Quotes

This star won't go out. And it won't. we won't let it.

To choose what is difficult all one's days, as if it were easy, that is faith

Victory; a matter of staying power.

Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.

If the biographer gives me credit for being a plodder, he will describe me justly. Anything beyond this will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.

There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil.

Along with faith comes the requirement for dogged persistence. At first meditation may bring you mild highs or some relief from suffering. But there may come a time - just as there does in the development of any skill - when there will be a plateau. You may be bored, discouraged, or even negative and cynical. This is when you will need not only faith, but persistence.

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

After a half-century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there.

We must not falter nor weary in well-doing. We must lengthen our stride. Not only is our own eternal welfare at stake, but also the eternal welfare of many of our brothers and sisters who are not now members of this, the true Church. I thrill to the words of the Prophet Joseph Smith in a letter that he sent to the Church from Nauvoo on September 6, 1842: 'Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward. … Courage … and on, on to the victory!

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!

Perseverance may be just as important as speed in the battle for the future.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

By being persistent, you're demonstrating faith. Persistence is simply another word for faith. If you didn't have faith, you'd never persist.

He that endureth to the end, shall be saved.

The essential thing ‘in heaven and earth’ is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.

Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.