Quotes about Persistence

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

I say, Parker, these are funny cases, ain't they? Every line of inquiry seems to peter out. It's awfully exciting up to a point, you know, and then nothing comes of it. It's like rivers getting lost in the sand.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting" (Ps. 139:23—24)? If you go on through life blindly confident but

Every phase of building a company is really hard.