Quotes About Perseverance

If he could have reached it, he'd have kicked his own backside.

run off, are you?" Rafe hesitated. "Nope, I'm not running

Without hope," he had said, "the rest is impossible.

I can jog, but I can't run. That's hard for me. I like the fact that I can jog for fitness, but to me there's a huge difference between jogging and running.

Growth comes in the aftermath of failure, not wild success.

The sparrow still falls.

No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.

There's a saying in Hebrew, 'No matter how dark the tapestry God weaves for us, there's always a thread of grace.

I was in a temper fit to blow the lid off a kettle of boiling water. And who wouldn't be? Since sunup, I'd been doing chores. I'd milked the cow, hauled two buckets of water from the well, fed the chickens, and then fought the hens for their eggs. Now I was down on my knees, sweat-soaked and bug-bitten, yanking weeds from the vegetable patch. My hands were caked with mud, and my nose was burned as red as a strawberry.

We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness.

We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that He'll do more than we expect.

God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.

When we have difficult relationships, God often uses them as gifts in our lives—to shape us, conform us to His Son, and make us gutsier and stronger.

Look how He's dusted me off and set me on my feet two hundred and fifty bazillion times. I'm fanatically in love with Him. So if this is true, I need to shed my need-for-everyone-to-like-me coat in favor of His robe of redemption, His mantle of humble submission.

I realized that what I feared the most had materialized, yet I survived.

That's the crux of my prayer for you as you walk through difficult relationship -- that you would begin to see God's storytelling in your life even in the midst of pain and bewilderment.

I'm just a broken girl who's learned I can't walk the crooked path of this life.

He who has done his best for his own time, has lived for all times. (Igbo proverb)

We've had a terrible start—it doesn't mean we can't have a better ending.

Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.

Three more days. That's what Sven always told me. When you think you're at the end of your rope, give it three more days. And then another three. Sometimes you'll find the rope is longer than you thought.

Ascente cha ores ri ve breazza." "Turn your ear to the wind," she interpreted. "Stand strong.

I'm not the farmer I claimed to be, but I hope I can make you fall in love with me again, this time as a prince, one day at a time. We've had a terrible start—it doesn't mean we can't have a better ending.

I know you have the patience of a rapidly decomposing turd.