Perseverance

Perseverance is the quality of continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.

Bible and Christian Quotes

The waters wear the stones. Job 14 (KJV)

Quotes

• Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
  • Plutarch, Of the Training of Children.

• The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
  • John Lyly, Euphues, p. 81. Arber's Reprint (1579).

• So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse
  Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,
  Yet gives not o'er, though desperate of success.
  • John Milton, Paradise Regained (1671), Book IV, line 21.

• Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed sæpe cadendo.
  • The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.
  • Quoted in the Menagiana, 1713. Probably first to use it was Richard, Monk of S. Victor; Paris.

See Also

• Forgiveness