Quotes About Perseverance

Waylon Jennings

When Christ is all you have, that's the time you realize that Christ is all you need.

We are just vessels through which Christ works. The Christ life is a journey. We will never arrive at a point where we don't have to struggle with our flesh anymore. Either the Lord will return or we will die before that ever happens. We don't have to live defeated lives, but we should expect struggles to come and go.

The men were famous once. Some of them still are. They were the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and Brooks had brought them together, 24 summers before. He had picked them and provoked them and pushed them, sometimes irritating them and often infuriating them by his hardness and his aloofness, his scathing rebukes and his unrelenting mind games.

The 1962 Mets went 40-120, losing more games than any ball club in the twentieth century and finishing 60½ games out of first place.

The 1962 Mets went 40-120, losing more games than any ball club in the twentieth century and finishing 60½ games out of first place. This is not easy to do.

The '62 Mets made 3 errors in their first game, 3 in their last game, and 204 more errors in between.

You push on, do your best, and if you are really brave, you dream big, doubts and fears be damned. This is the stuff that miracles are made of, and the proof was there to see, on February 22, 1980.

Brooks punished them in drills on the ice and gave them a 300-question test to assess their psychological makeup off it. He was relentless. If they couldn't take this small sampling of life under Brooks, they wouldn't last through one Olympic practice shift.

there are two pains in life: the pain of discipline, or the pain of regret. You choose.

Remember that suffering will change you, but not necessarily for the better. You must choose to grow better not bitter.

I drove hard on all cylinders, not realizing that being an entrepreneur means that everything you initiate, by default you must add to your maintenance list.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength." CHARLES H. SPURGEON

God is not cruel, but He is not lenient. He is true; He is not safe. He is unchanging; therefore we must change. We must learn in order to succeed. Our failures do not influence our grades, but our unwillingness to learn from them does. I

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." HELEN KELLER

I could never get a clue what she wants, but she's almighty persistent, I'll tell you that.

I couldn't beat people with my strength I don't have a hard shot I'm not the quickest skater in the league. My eyes and my mind have to do most of the work.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

You miss 100% percent of the shots you don't take

The world was doing its best to ignore the fact that I was a writer.

Just because we are working hard does not mean we are making anything happen.

There are many ways to grow football-wise. You go slow or are pushed to go faster, otherwise you get left behind. For me, there would be trouble in stopping learning.

One reason many people never see God working in their lives is because they never hang in long enough for God to show his power.