W. H. Auden Quotes

Actually, ambition won't get you that far. You'll shift gears. You'll see something that's shinier. But if you believe... then you're the long-distance runner.

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

If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe.

To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.

God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.

Naw, it - it never stops, man... You gotta be doing what you're supposed to be doing - whenever, however it's coming down, you know. If you're getting your butt kicked - you still gotta do what you gotta be doing.

Final perseverance is the doctrine that wins the eternal victory in small things as in great

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

This is a very difficult thing to remain independent and persistent.

Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

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

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.

What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue it after failure?

Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor -- Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light. So boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. Don't you fall now -- For I'se still goin', honey, I'se still climbin', And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial—but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope.

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

...no way through it but through it," I tell myself.

This isn't going to be easy," I grumbled as we headed toward the exit. Bones shrugged. "Nothing worthwhile ever is.

They say behind mountains are more mountains.