Quotes about Achievement

Healthy ministry communities, which leave a legacy of long-term gospel productivity, have longevity and fruit because they are, at their core, communities of grace. Rather than achievement forming how the leadership community forms itself and operates, the gospel does.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

The way up to the top of the mountain is always longer than you think. Dont fool yourself, the moment will arrive when what seemed so near is still very far.

And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.

We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine.”

But Gideon answered them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?

So David marched out and prospered in everything Saul sent him to do, and Saul set him over the men of war. And this was pleasing in the sight of all the people, and of Saul’s officers as well.

to those in Hormah, Bor-ashan, and Athach;

Was he not more honored than the Three? And he became their commander, even though he was not included among the Three.

So Solomon built the temple and finished it.

Solomon, however, took thirteen years to complete the construction of his entire palace.