Quotes About Perseverance

You are 2 Corinthians 4, because although this darkness pressed you so hard, it did not crush you. Perhaps it struck you down, but look at you: You are not destroyed. You see that in the light. You are still standing. If you are still breathing, there is still hope.

The church the Bible described is exciting and adventurous and wrought with sacrifice. It cost believers everything, and they still came.

Over the summer we chatted one night while Angie stripped a bed, changed wet sheets, comforted and repajamaed a toddler, and chased down a car of speeding teenagers while shaking a brick at them, never once interrupting the conversation or setting down her margarita. The only reason this woman isn't president of General Motors is because she's chosen not to be.

Every no takes you one step closer to a yes!

Success = persistence when it gets hard.

you have to be willing to fall down, get up, look stupid, cry, laugh, make a mess, clean it up and not stop until you get there. No matter what.

Deciding means jumping in all the way, doing whatever it takes, and going after your dreams with the tenacity of a dateless cheerleader a week before prom night.

If you work with great people, it will be a great experience. Even if you're shoveling shit.

And the excellent thing about success is that it always comes down to one simple thing: the decision to keep going until you've reached your goal.

You can have excuses or you can have success; you can't have both.

INSPIRATIONAL NOTE TO SELF: Flowers grow in sand. I can do anything.

Life often turns to shit before it turns to shinola.

When you commit to transforming your life, you commit to getting very uncomfortable over and over and over again.

As Winston Churchill so aptly explained, "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.     ââ'¬â€W.H. Murray;

People who are successful are not only willing to get uncomfortable, but they know they have to make a habit of it if they want to stay successful.

Living a life in which you're constantly letting yourself down and feeling powerless against distractions and impulses is hard; waiting a few seconds and retraining your focus to achieve success is easy.

Most of the time it's not lack of experience that's holding us back, but rather the lack of determination to do what we need to do to be successful.

The only failure is quitting.

have lived a long life and had many troubles, most of which never happened.

Where there's a will there's a way; we just prefer to pretend there isn't a way so we don't have to take responsibility and do the uncomfortable stuff required to grow.

When taking great leaps forward, life often turns to shit before it turns to Shinola.

Keep your thoughts directed at your goal, do everything that you DO know how to do to make it happen decide with unwavering determination that it will happen, and be on the lookout for the opportunity.

You can have your excuses or you can have success. You can't have both. Whichever outcome you train your mind on dictates the reality you see before you.