Quotes About Perseverance

Personal qualities of character such as self-motivation and conscientiousness will reap a lot of gains in the new world to come.

You can get a thousand no's from people, and only one "yes" from God.

People always try to do the right thing..after they've tried everything else.

Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.

I thank God for Closed Doors

There will be rough nights but joy really does come in the morning.

God will prepare a table before you in the presence of your enemies so let them watch you eat.

Heartbreak can make you hard! But don't let it make you bitter.

I ain't going to talk to you until I am blue in the face trying to make you change. I'm going to tell you what's on my mind and hope you get it and I'm going to move on. That's what we have to do sometimes--move on. Try to help others, extend your hand, and then help the next. If they don't want to accept it, keep moving on. Don't let them discourage you. Never stop doing what you're doing because of somebody else's unwillingness to learn.

Be aware of the darkness but your focus should always be the light.

It takes a while to build a dream

Be modest and patient; allow your dream its own time to grow. Dreams need to be tended like crops before you can enjoy the harvest. And this is important: Don't get hung up on the outcome. Hand that over to God. Remember, He's the one at the wheel. Of course, I was afraid of failing, but I held on

This book is to help you understand that life is sometimes hard, and you have to laugh your way through it.

But what I found out, the longer you sit there and feel bad about yourself, the longer you're going to stay depressed.

Think about yourself as a baby eagle leaving a comfortable nest. If things start becoming difficult while you're taking flight, don't be afraid. Spread your wings and fly. God's got you.

There ain't no man going to do something for you that you can't do for yourself. Get out there and make it happen for yourself.

The truth is I had to imagine myself in a better place," I explained. "Because sometimes the nights got so cold and the days

so hard, if I didn't dream of better times, I wouldn't have made it.

If God can bring me out of poverty and despair and place me right in the middle of the life I'd always imagined, he can do the same for anyone. And that includes you.

When I was twenty years old and putting on my first play in Birmingham, Alabama, I had to use my mother's credit card to rent a van to get there. The bill was around three hundred dollars. But the show didn't make any money, and when I came home I had to tell her I couldn't pay for the rental.

to my faith, worked toward my dream, and then surrendered.

Everybody is dealt a different hand, but you have to do what you have with your hand.

But I couldn't get the preacher's words out of my head: "If you pray, God will see you through it. He'll answer your prayers.

get through the spring, summer, and autumn living paycheck to paycheck, but during the chilly months of winter, the money ran out and I couldn't pay my rent. The unthinkable happened. I became homeless. I'd sleep in my car and try to keep warm by running the heater or wrapping myself in a quilt Aunt Mae had given me. If I had some cash, I'd crash in a pay-by-the-week hotel room.