Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bible Bible

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. (Ephesians 6:18)

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Perhaps the best-known Old Testament example of perseverance is the story of Job.

Brian Tracy

Persistence is self-discipline in action.

Carl von Clausewitz

Be audacious and cunning in your plans, firm and persevering in their execution, determined to find a glorious end.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude; you must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.

Desiderius Erasmus

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

Dean Koontz

Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.

Billy Corgan

As long as you have faith, you're willing to try to take another chance. God wants you to amble toward the right spot on the horizon. The idea is that you're willing to get up and keep moving toward that light.

Edward Norton

As we say in the sewer, if you're not prepared to go all the way, don't put your boots on in the first place.

Ayn Rand

You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is–say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

C. S. Lewis

Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

Carol Ann Duffy

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Charles R. Swindoll

To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God. To linger in His presence, to shut out the noise of the city and, in quietness, give Him the praise He deserves. Before we engage ourselves in His work, let's meet Him in His Word... in prayer... in worship.

Charles Kimbrough

When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.

Delroy Lindo

There isn't a damn thing wrong with prayer. During the war I served with a guy who prayed all the time, carried a Bible with him everywhere. We all mocked him to no end. One day, that Bible stopped a bullet, my hand to God, that Bible stopped a bullet. If only he'd had another Bible in front of his face, he'd be alive today.

Susan B. Anthony

I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.

Brennan Manning

In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us - that we be men and women of prayer, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.

Brennan Manning

Prayer is first and foremost an act of love

Brennan Manning

The Word we study has to be the Word we pray.

E. Stanley Jones

When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.

E. Stanley Jones

If we know how to pray, we know how to live.

Dolly Parton

Every day I pray about all I do.

Dolly Parton

I pray a lot. I pray that God will show me what to do and will guide me and lead me.

Anne Boleyn

Remember me when you do pray that hope doth lead from day to day.

Andre Benjamin

Nothing's more attractive than a heavy praying woman,

Tinie Tempah

I pray as much as possible.

Thomas Merton

If you have never had any distractions you don't know how to pray.

Hugh Johnson

We're all watching the same stuff. Like sheep.

Andy Robinson

It has been killing me watching from the stands, I want to get back into the action,

Brian Urlacher

If I was someone, I'd do the same to us after watching that film.