Quotes About Perseverance

And so it will be with your life. There will be tough times—there are for everyone. There will be times of fear and trembling. There will be times of discouragement and disillusionment. Have courage, smile, keep your chin up, laugh often, be kind to yourself, stay focused, be gracious and appreciative, think happy thoughts, and carry on regardless.

In every moment of every day, resistance is there, waiting to pounce. The hardest war to win is one you don't even realize you are fighting, and the hardest enemy to defeat is the one you don't even know exists. Every day you are at war with resistance. Make no mistake, resistance is your enemy. It will not quietly go away and leave you alone. You have to slay it like a dragon, and you have to slay it anew each day.

doesn't stop, but he slows down. "How are you?

You will never have more happiness than discipline…People are most fully alive when they embrace a life of discipline, it awakens us from our philosophical stupor.

When you do break through resistance, celebrate that, and then press on to live the life God imagined for you before the beginning of time. And if you ever feel discouraged or defeated, remember this: Every moment is a chance to start anew, a chance to turn it all around.

All of life's regrets come from not having the discipline to overcome resistance and delay gratification in order to build a bigger future. In the same way, when we slay resistance we are always glad we did.

Being gentle with yourself consists of realizing your faults, failings, and weaknesses, and dealing with them appropriately. God doesn't want us to beat ourselves up. He wants us to press on and try again.

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about redeeming them—every day begin anew.

Perhaps at this time in your life you are tired and frustrated—with your career, with your marriage, with your children, with society, with your spiritual life—but Jesus is saying to you, "Put out into the deep water and lower your nets for a catch." In the story we know that Simon and his friends listen to Jesus and do what he suggests, and they

catch so many fish that their nets begin to tear and they need help from fishermen in other boats to haul in the catch. Over and over in life, God challenges us to abandon our doubts and fears and cast our nets into the deep waters of the spiritual life. It is never convenient, it is almost always difficult, and it is sometimes quite painful, but if we heed the Lord's direction we will always bring in a huge catch. Don't be afraid of the deep places.

Take some small action. Resistance hates action.

The secret is to stretch yourself, but not so much that you break.

it is easy to get so caught up in surviving that we stop dreaming.

nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

DO NOT LET YOUR LIFE BE LIKE A SHOOTING STAR, WHICH LIGHTS UP THE SKY FOR ONLY A BRIEF MOMENT. LET YOUR LIFE BE LIKE THE SUN, WHICH ALWAYS BURNS BRIGHTLY IN THE HEAVENS, BRINGING LIGHT AND WARMTH TO ALL THOSE ON EARTH. LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE!

Something like 'Without a Paddle' does really well at the box office and I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.' In 'Without a Paddle' I'm the romantic lead - great! A comedy and that's what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didn't get another shot.

That's me, giving myself a tough-love speech. I'm going to start doing that more often, I've decided. One might as well put his inner monologue to good use.

Remember that there are two things in this life that are never worth crying about: what can be cured and what cannot be cured.

I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.

it doesn't take much courage to fight when you still believe you can win. What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone.

Only those who have tasted the bitterest of the bitter can become people who stand out among others. -Guanchang Xianxing Ji

What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone.

His noble negligences teachWhat others' toils despair to reach.

The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself. —Friedrich Nietzsche