Quotes About Perseverance

It's okay to be afraid. It's not okay to let the fear STOP you.

Instead of asking WHY you had to do it, how about just thanking Him for safely bringing you THROUGH it.

You do the foot work, and leave the results up to God.

Oprah got her money," she snapped. "You trying to get YOURS! No, turn off that fuckin' TV and get to studying!

You're not always going to be able to see the big picture. But you've got to know that, no matter what, you'll be okay. Keep praying.

Return me to that bitch?" I shouted to the sky. "Fuck you! I can take care of myself!

The only thing I hope I did was never put in question my love for the game, or my passion to be counted on when it mattered most.

I think I've earned a certain level of respect, based on my accomplishments and my consistency.

I've helped create over 400 jobs in the worst economy of my lifetime. That's cool.

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

Our Not Yet body of glory grows out of our Now body of struggle.

To hang on through loss, I need to hang on to a throughline.

He had so many irons in the fire that he was never able to forge any single one into a weapon with which to conquer his world.

Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.

side. "Not good," he replied, "but I'll live." "Well, quick now, get on Chancer while I see to Master Hogan," Drew whispered. As Whitley grabbed the horse by the reins, Drew scrambled over to the scout, who lay slumped in a bed of bracken. "Get gone," said the old ranger, barely audible. The color had drained from his face, and his lips were pale and bloodless.

They say everything you go through in your childhood builds character and inner strength.

No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.

On the other hand, the Bible contains much that is relevant today, like Noah taking forty days to find a place to park.

Perhaps this is how you know you're doing the thing you're intended to: No matter how slow or how slight your progress, you never feel that it's a waste of time.

Later on, when I tried to imagine how I might have ruined things, that would occur to me - that I'd so rarely resisted, that I hadn't made it hard enough for him. Maybe it was like gathering your strength and hurling your body against a door you believe to be locked, and then the door opens easily - it wasn't locked at all - and you're standing looking into the room, trying to remember what it was you thought you wanted.

What difference does a little rain matter, since you'll be getting wet anyhow?

Decades of behavioral blunders and ill-conceived marriages and businesses run amok had left next to nothing by the time Leonard was in high school. He'd wangled himself an engineering scholarship to Cornell and then a job with Dow Chemical during a time he referred to, reverently, as the Dawn of the Absorbency Revolution.

Once you realized just how valuable some things—some people—were, you'd fight even the devil to get them back. For her, he'd fight anyone. Everyone.

There is no growth without pain. No life without suffering.