Quotes About Perseverance

1.    Overcoming objections. Look for (or ask for)

God allows us to face the tension whether we like it or not.

Finish this process. Beat the competition. Clarify your message. Grow your company. The competition may be more talented than you are, but they will never outwork you if you don't let them. That's the one thing you get to control.

Life is a game of statistics. There are no guarantees, but the more positive effort you put in, the more likely you will be to win.

Tell Me I can't and I will

All great stories are about survival—either physical, emotional, relational, or spiritual. A story about anything else won't work to captivate an audience.

you have to create a character who wants something and overcomes conflict to get it.

Darius Goes West.

After you have listed the top five excuses, craft a sentence or two that overcomes each objection.

I'm convinced every person has a longing that will never be fulfilled and it's our job to let it live and breathe and suffer within it as a way of developing our character.

you can include a testimonial in which a customer explains how you helped them overcome a challenge, or you can simply list the problems you resolve in bullet points.

Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you are going to get excited about it, and then when it comes time to do the work, you're not going to want to do it. It's like that with writing books, and it's like that with life. People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

I suppose that's the point of this book. There's truth in the idea we're never going to be perfect in love but we can get close. And the closer we get, the healthier we will be. Love is not a game any of us can win, it's just a story we can live and enjoy. It's a noble ambition, then, to add a chapter to the story of love, and to make our chapter a good one.

You put your characters through hell. You put them through hell. That's the only way we change.

I didn't want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasn't trying to weasel out of anything, I just wasn't in the mood to be on earth that night.

When people are in a focused state, the words "I can't," "I'll try," "I'll do it tomorrow," and "maybe" get forced out of their vocabularies.

that if you try once, you should try again. Keep that focus exactly where it should be—on winning.

It's always good to be underestimated.

Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy.

operate your day-to-day business as if bad times are always here," which is a great precaution.

Nothing is easy. But who wants nothing?

No one has ever achieved anything significant without a chorus of critics standing on the sidelines explaining why it can't be done.

I don't mean to brag, but I put together a puzzle in 1 day and the box said 2-4 years.

an entrepreneur's ability to find strength when others want to run, hide, quit, or blame someone else for their failures.