Quotes About Perseverance

I learned to pick up each piece, one at a time, from my pile of potential matches and try to fit it from any angle into the socket, then discard it and move on. Each failure is meaningless. It's not me, it's the pieces, and I have to, absolutely must, try each and every piece every possible way until I find one that fits. They aren't failures, they're steps, small bits of progress.

Complete it-you cannot sell an unfinished book.

chance is only for the people willing to give it ago n taking it is only encourage by the people who believe in you !

I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.

I don't know now if I'm funny. I just keep talking and hope that I hit something that's funny.

I'm not so much a dragon slayer, more a dragon annoyer -- I'm a dragon irritater.

I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves.

I was ambitious and desperate to direct my first film, so I capitulated and blew it. Never again. Never fucking again.

I don't know why I was so afraid of failure; the most interesting people I know have failed more than they have succeeded. This may be because life is not as simple as it appears to a desperately ambitious young man, or it could be that all my friends are losers.

I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.

The winged beasts and angels know, that mortals cannot fly. But how I flew to see the sun; a broken bird am I.

First we molt, then spin a web, after this we weave, until our food is dead. Next dancing a jig, And waiting for a meal, Then we wrestle a bit Til we sit and eat our fill." Captain Muntweight

Tragically, many people have this faithless, wishy-washy mindset, which causes them to lose the battle in their minds before they ever fight it in the world.

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

If you're not dead, you're not done.

My pastor used to say you're either coming out of a tough season, in the middle of a tough season, or heading into a tough season.

But if we've honestly done everything we can, by definition we can't do anything more.

A. W. Tozer, who said, "It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply.

His famous, soul-stirring "I have a dream" speech will still give you chills and break your heart today. Decades later, long after his life on earth tragically ended, the legacy of his burden lives on, improving lives for generations to come. All because one man allowed his burden to birth a dream.

Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything" (James 1:4

Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.

You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He wants to take you to a new place, to transform you into a new person.

Again, so many people think that they wouldn't be going through their struggles if God were really with them. But that's simply not the case. Having Jesus in the stern beside you doesn't mean the storm won't rock your boat. It just means the storm won't sink you.

While it's easy to believe the worst, God wants you to believe the best. He never promises a trouble-free life of leisure, but he does promise never to leave you and always to love you.