Quotes About Perseverance

Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work. Happiness is not an exception.

when people think or write about happiness, self-control is rarely stressed. … Yet happiness is impossible without self-control. In fact, everything we want is impossible without self-control. Ask anyone who has achieved what you particularly desire to achieve, and you will find a profoundly self-disciplined individual.

The only way to get what you ultimately want is to deny yourself short-term pleasures that interfere with your goal.

One day, however, the thought occurred to me that being unhappy was easy—in fact, the easy way out—and that it took no courage, effort, or greatness to be unhappy. Anyone could be unhappy.

happiness is a battle to be waged and not a feeling to be awaited.

Everything worthwhile in life is attained through hard work.

The choice is yours: do you want as pain-free a life as possible, or do you want as life-filled a life as possible? The two are mutually exclusive. "No pain, no gain" is not only true for developing a good body; it is equally true for developing a good life.

Everything that leads to happiness involves pain.

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Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over.

There's something I learned when I was homeless: Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over.

What are you doing extra? That's what counts. That's when you're working hard - when you're going above and over what's expected of you (102) - Tony Gonzalez, The Giant Within

You have to do what you gotta do in this life in order to do what you wanna do...

At your highest moment, be careful, that's when the devil comes for you.

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

One way not to receive an answer to a petition is to go on praying for it. Some people pray themselves into faith and then pray themselves out of faith.

If you have a bitter pool, bear in mind that out of the bitter pool God is going to reveal Himself to you if you will let Him speak to your heart.

The future happens, no matter how much we scream.

For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.

If I Am murdered en route it will have been well worth while!

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness."-Desmond Tutu Quote Read: 5/8/18

After you fail, which I have, you can either choose to crumble and retreat and become nonfunctional, which I've seen happen, or you can just become a lone wolf, forget about the cool kids and just continue to do your own thing.