Quotes About Perseverance

You know the old saying, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." Well, if you always get out as soon as the kitchen gets hot, your life will end up half-baked.

Until someone says "no" to you, you're not asking for enough.

That would be like saying, "I can't fix this." Being stuck forever with no way out is a very scary feeling.

When they have setbacks, they don't resort to whining, blaming someone, or withdrawing. Instead, they're determined.

Their operating principle is, "Look out world—here I come.

work was not supposed to be something you enjoyed but something you endured. If it wasn't hard, it wasn't legitimate. I

Then, when you find yourself starting down the rocky road to self-defeat, pause, reflect, and

But what happens if we look back for support and don't get it? We become less confident about stepping into the unknown. We succeed less and fail more. We move two steps forward and three steps back.

Effective selling is directly tied to timing, patience, and persistence

Realizing that it isn't personal doesn't mean you shouldn't take it personally. If you don't, in fact, it may mean that you haven't put enough of yourself into the effort.

and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.

And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head.

But it's not about having good days or bad days; it's about being his.

Christians have huge buts, where we believe everything but [insert excuse here].

The Devil takes no holiday; he never rests. If beaten, he rises again. If he cannot enter in front, he steals in the rear. If he cannot enter at the rear, he breaks through the roof or enters by tunneling under the threshold. He labors until he is in. He uses great cunning and many a plan. When one miscarries, he has another at hand and continues in his attempts until he wins. MARTIN LUTHER

You will never be passionate about something in which you don't fully believe. You may be able to fake your passion for Christ for a season, but it will be sure to wither when the heat of affliction comes. How far you are willing to go and how much discomfort you are willing to experience for the sake of the gospel will say much about what you truly believe.

If you're being smothered from someone on top of you, you've got to move, if you can't move, you better pray, and then find a pocket of air (this pocket of air will be hot and humid and almost not worth breathing, but it's all you got).

I could fall And there's nothin' else I can do

a mantra she attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt: women in politics, she said, "need to develop skin as tough as a rhinoceros hide.

As usual, though, if you find yourself running into a wall, stop running into a wall!

As one widow put it to me, "Strength doesn't mean being able to stand up to anything, but being able to crawl on your belly a long, long time before you can stand up again.

Mi papá te hubiera puesto a hacer cien lagartijas por todo este gimoteo. -No si antes me rompiera mis malditas costillas, amiga. Me siento como Rihanna tras una noche de pasión.

We work so hard to get somewhere, to realize a dream, to arrive at some destination, that we often forget that though some satisfaction may be waiting at the end of our endurance and effort, there is great and irreplaceable aliveness in the steps along the way.

It's a tough lesson: There is no summit that comes before you expect it.