Quotes About Perseverance

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks." —Phillips Brooks

Do more, give more, try harder, aim higher, and give thanks. The rewards will be yours.

Practice is simply preparation for success.

If you don't pay the price for success, you'll pay the price for failure.

Encouragers are people who have been successful themselves. They are people who stepped up and took risks and were able to accomplish things they may not have believed possible. Encouragers are the kind of people you can share your goals with and they will encourage you to go for it. Encouragers will also share their own mistakes with you and tell you how they overcame them to achieve success.

Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase." —MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember - the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

If we demand a certain answer, we set ourselves up for disappointment, and if disappointment isn't arrested, it will soon lead to discouragement.

Remember that every man at times stumbles and must be helped up: if he's down, you cannot carry him. The only way in which any man can be helped permanently is to help himself." —Theodore Roosevelt

The mark of true faith is steadfast trust in God when we don't see what He's doing or how He's doing it.

This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love."—OSWALD CHAMBERS

It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.

Other people and things can stop you temporarily. You are the only one who can do it permanently."—ZIG ZIGLAR

Running your own race is doing the best you can every chance you get with what you have for a purpose that outlives you.

If you learn from defeat, You haven't really lost. -Zig Ziglar

Booker T. Washington said, "You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

you were born to win, but in order to be the winner you were born to be, you have to plan to win and prepare to win before you can expect to win.

You don't have to be great to start, you have to start to be great.

Much about success is just the result of simply the ability to follow up, follow through, and finish what we started.

Feelings follow actions. So when you don't really want to or feel like doing what needs to be done—do it and then you will feel like doing it." —ZIG ZIGLAR

failure is an event, it is not a person—yesterday ended last night—today is a brand new day and it's yours.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

you will be on your way because you will have discovered that you can always find a capable helping hand at the end of your own sleeve.