Quotes about Persistence

Gaining a victory is more difficult than maintaining it once you have it.

Don't ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it.

Don't receive condemnation when you have setbacks or bad days. Just get back up, dust yourself off, and start again.

Habakkuk 3:19 says that the way we develop hind's feet (a hind is an animal that can climb mountains swiftly) is "to walk [not to stand still in terror, but to walk] and make [spiritual] progress upon" the "high places [of trouble, suffering or responsibility]!" The way God helps us make spiritual progress is by being with us to strengthen and encourage us to "keep on keeping on" in rough times. It's easy to quit; it takes faith to go through.

A bad attitude is like a flat tire. If you don't change it, you won't go anywhere.

Do whatever you can do, and refuse to sit and do nothing. Remember, do what you can do, and God will do what you cannot do.

Prayer makes tremendous power available (James 5:16). Don't let your prayer life reflect weeds of inconsistency or neglect.

I don't care whether there seems to be a way or not. Jesus is the Way; His Spirit lives in me; and I will find a way!" God promised He would make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert (see Isaiah 43:19).

A walk begins with one step and then another and another. No matter how long your journey seems, if you take enough steps in the right direction, you will eventually arrive at your desired destination.

And let us not lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due time and at the appointed season we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint. Galatians 6:9

Keep on asking and it will be given you; keep on seeking and you will find; keep on knocking [reverently] and [the door] will be opened to you. Matthew 7:7

Any day that we don't give up puts us one day closer to success.