Quotes About Perseverance

The crisis with all creative work is that it requires us to trust that generative voice inside us while also silencing the negative ones. It's so easy to mix them all up and end up quietly abandoning our ambitions.

Hold the standard. Ask for help. Fix it. Do whatever's necessary. But don't cheat.

I decided a long time ago that I would only bet on myself.

when you're going 10% bigger, you're competing against everybody. Everybody's trying to go 10% bigger. When you're trying to go 10 times bigger, you're there by yourself.

Doing light-weight overhead squats with a narrow stance, in combination with Cossack squats (page 87), for 3 months is what helped me get 99% toward passing the "campfire test" above. My left ankle is still sadly bone on bone.

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Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl The Fourth Turning by William Strauss (Also, Generations by William Strauss, which was gifted to Tony by Bill Clinton) Mindset by Carol Dweck (for parenting) As a Man Thinketh by James Allen (see Shay Carl, page 441)

No one owes you anything." Amelia Boone

They waited. The door did not open. The rain did not stop. The darkness made a tent and covered them completely.

Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. ~

What was it like, being married to six actresses?" "Like being married to one of them. They're all pretty much alike." "Why'd you keep doing it, then?" "Hope is the thing with feathers," Trent said, "that tickles your scrotum at the moments when you most need a clear head.

St. Francis of Assisi: Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you will be doing the impossible.

these men signed up all those years ago for the full five-course meal, including the bitter dessert, and they got to this point without ever doing anything to push back from the table and use their lives to accomplish something useful.

The strong times, the weak times-- they all come in waves. Trust me, none of us has it together.

in time of desolation never make a change, but be firm and constant in the proposals and determination in which one was the day preceding such desolation, or in the determination in which one was in the preceding consolation.

As John of the Cross writes so simply: "On this journey, we must always continue to walk if we are to arrive.

Christ gives us all we need to draw nearer to him and enjoy him amid difficulties and blessings. We may get tired, but not despondent. We will be sad, but not hopeless. We will endure pain, but we will not give up. We will enjoy blessings, but not grow proud. We see that our lives do not consist only in what we have, how we feel, or what we have accomplished, but in who we are in Christ. This enables us to stand where we would once have fallen down.

We shouldn't be surprised when suffering and difficulty come our way; in fact, we should probably be surprised when they don't.

Timothy S. Lane

have a tendency to do this with parenting: If I can just get through the diaper phase. . . . Once my children were out of diapers, it became: If I can just get through these early years of elementary school, then I can minister to others.

He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." That good work begins in relationship to Jesus and is brought to completion within an ever-deepening union with him.

Make every effort

The rest of this book is about hard work, but it is the best work you will ever do. If

While the control of sin has been broken, the sin that remains in us still puts up a real fight.