Quotes About Perseverance

Faith sees best in the dark.

The first rule of resilience: allow your present crisis to refine you, not define you.

God lets you hang out on a limb till the very last second and then rescues you. It builds your trust. If He made it easy all the time, you would never trust Him when you really need to.

can do all things through him who strengthens me. Yet it was kind of you to share my trouble" (Phil. 4:13–14 ESV).

We grow into our best selves not when we avoid our problems but rather when we embrace them and work through them to resolution.

Growing in resilience is the first important step in preparing for the issues you will face as a leader. Resilience will help you refine your calling as a leader and sustain leadership excellence.

Unexpected adversity is often painful yet crucial to the later success of a leader.

Henry Ford went broke five times, was accused of having poor judgment, but ultimately transformed the automobile industry.

Michael Jordan initially failed to make his varsity high school basketball team but became one of the greatest athletes to ever play the sport.

resilience this way: the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.

A resilient leader bounces back from adversity better than he was before.

More than education, more than experience, more than training, a person's level of resilience will determine who succeeds and who fails.

The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.

Success is moving from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

No failure, disappointment, or crisis is too great for God to redeem. Only we can limit ourselves by failing to dream and risk again.

The deepest and most significant growth comes through pain.

All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

Take wrongs patiently. Be willing to suffer for doing good (1 Pet. 3:8–17).

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Philippians 3:12 ESV

Don't fight it out to the bitter end, or the end will most certainly be bitter.

Doing the show was like painting the George Washington Bridge. As soon as you finished one end, you started right in on the other.

For me and Washington, it was like I was in a dark tunnel, and the light was really far away.

I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.

This is my fourth term and my seventh year. My first year was in 1997, the same year for Vic Snyder. It is still exciting to be there even though Washington is not run by Democrats right now, but we are working very hard.