And let us not be weary in well doing; for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.
-Galatians 6:9.
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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always some one to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men to win them.
-Emerson.
Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near.
-Isaiah 55:6.
Give us, O give us, the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow in te same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time – he will do it better, he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible of fatigue whilst he marches to music.
-Thomas Carlyle.
It is only through labor and prayerful efforts, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
-Theodore Roosevelt.
There is a definite distance between the wishes and the doers. A mere desire is lukewarm water, which never will take a train to its destination; the purpose must boil, must be made into live steam to do the work. Who would ever have heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his immediate community if he had only half committed himself to what he had undertaken, if he had brought only a part of himself to his task? The great secret of his career has been that he has flung his whole life, not a part of it, with all the determination and energy and power he could muster, into everything he has undertaken. No dillydallying, no faint-hearted efforts, no lukewarm purpose for him.
-O.S. Marden.