Quotes About Perseverance

Pits need to be filled.

That's the paradox of the growth mindset. Although it seems to draw attention to failure, and in fact encourages us to seek out failure, it is unflaggingly optimistic. We will struggle, we will fail, we will be knocked down—but throughout, we'll get better, and we'll succeed in the end.

Lots of things are out of our control. But the goal is to be wise about the things that are under our control. And one thing we can control is how we define the ultimate victory and the small victories that lead up to it.

Grit is not synonymous with hard work. It involves a certain single-mindedness. An ungritty prison inmate will mount a daring new escape attempt every month, but a gritty prison inmate will tunnel his way out one spoonful of concrete at a time. Grit

So when you hear people say that change is hard because people are lazy or resistant, that's just flat wrong. In fact, the opposite is true: Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that's the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.

Reinforcement is the secret to getting past the first step of your long journey and on to the second, third, and hundredth steps. And that's a problem, because most of us are terrible rein-forcers. We are quicker to grouse than to praise.

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur…. Don't look for the quick, big improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens—and when it happens, it lasts.

To lead a process requires persistence.

Even in failure there is success.

Self-control is an exhaustible resource

Failing is often the best way to learn, and because of that, early failure is a kind of necessary investment.

Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that's the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.

what looks like laziness is often exhaustion

Love sticks around even when it has a lot to put up with.

Annoying mishaps always seem to cluster around times of spiritual fruitfulness. That's not exactly coincidence.

Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.

authentic followers of Christ follow Him in the midst of a hostile and toxic environment.

I've been drawing shoes,' said Sketch, evoking a fireman who's been searching the smoking hulks of scorched buildings for burn victims, 'and it's been going feetingly.

Tomorrow is another day. I've got plenty of things to worry about right now.

All the way back, I pondered the word endure, what it meant. It didn't mean giving in. It didn't mean being weak or accepting injustice. It meant taking the challenges thrown at us and dealing with them as intelligently as we knew until we grew stronger than them.

Ii would no longer waste time on regret. I would turn my face to the future and carve it into the shape I wanted. - Panchali

Girls have to be toughened so they can survive a world that presses harder on women.

Perhaps that was why I had to endure pain—because true transformation can only happen in the crucible of suffering

I may be injured; I may even be wounded to the heart; but I'm not defeated yet.