Quotes about Persistence

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

You will never get what you don't ask for. You can't find what you aren't looking for. "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

He who began a good work in you will complete it. Don't give up. Press on. No matter how far you feel you've come—or how far you feel you have to go—don't stop now. Even if you miss the mark terribly, today is a new day. Live for "that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed" you.

It's the squeeze we've endured that proves to the world that the final product is worth it.

Anything worth achieving in this life requires time, patience, and some discomfort.

If you stop dreaming, you get complacent, and complacency never changes the world.

The reason God responds to persistence is because prayer is changing the one who prays. As we pray, God is making us spiritually fit to receive what He is already willing to do. Prayer changes us into the people who can participate in the greater work of God without being spoiled by it through pride or becoming discouraged by the increased weight of greater fruitfulness.

Prayer is the easiest thing to assume in church and the hardest thing to maintain. Prayer is the first thing our flesh stops when times get easy, and true prayer is the last thing we resort to when times get tough.

God calls us to have strength in our character and conduct, not simply a stiff upper lip in sorrow or a stubborn persistence during hardship. Secondarily, because the word is "passive voice," we know that the strength God demands He also provides. The strength does not come from a place inside us but a source beyond ourselves, namely, the Lord.

Prayer is the easiest thing to assume in church and the hardest thing to maintain.

Human sin is stubborn, but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half as persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper