Patience And Perseverance Quotes by Abraham Lincoln, Francis Bacon, Leo Tolstoy, Emily Post, Jacob August Riis, Moliere and many others.
I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Any child can be taught to be beautifully behaved with no effort greater than quiet patience and perseverance, whereas to break bad habits once they are acquired is a Herculean task.
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years.
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.
The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
Patience and fortitude conquer all things.
The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .
Patience and perseverance are never more thoroughly Christian graces than when features of prayer.
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
