Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.

I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.

What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

Don't make excuses. Make commitments and stick to them.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

If you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure.

We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.

You cannot rush God's timing. When the Lord speaks a word into your life, it is like a seed. Is your confidence in God's seed?

Often after years of deep investment into others we are shocked and disappointed that they simply didn't get who we really are.

If we have been diligent to hide the Word of God in our hearts, and if we continue to labor over that Word, we can be assured that in the time of harvest we will reap a bountiful reward if we faint not. (See Galatians 6:9.)