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Quotes about Persistence

Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??
- Marilyn Monroe
You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and goddamn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about your business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way
- Marilyn Monroe
Anybody can say 'I do' at the altar; the hard part is saying 'I do' every day thereafter. Anybody can set a life goal; the hard part is going after it every day. Anybody can say no to any addiction for a day, but you have to say it day after day after day.
- Mark Batterson
We give up too easily. We give up too soon. We quit praying right before the miracle happens.
- Mark Batterson
Don't give up on your dream. If you do, you aren't just giving up on its present-tense reality. You're giving up on its future-tense potential. Were
- Mark Batterson
God can deliver you in one day, but it may take years to break old habits or build new habits.
- Mark Batterson
fail. But I also believe this: One bold prayer can accomplish more than a thousand well-laid plans. So go ahead and plan, but make sure you circle your plans in prayer. If your plans aren't birthed in prayer and bathed in prayer, they won't succeed.
- Mark Batterson
As Edison is credited with saying, "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." We all want to be successful, but most of us aren't willing to do what those who are successful did to attain it. We want success without sacrifice, but you can't have one without the other!
- Mark Batterson
And when you pray to God regularly, irregular things happen on a regular basis.
- Mark Batterson
You need to circle the goals God wants you to go after, the promises God wants you to claim, and the dreams God wants you to pursue. And once you spell Jericho, you need to circle it in prayer. Then you need to keep circling until the walls come tumbling down.
- Mark Batterson
One reason many of us never get an answer to our prayers is that all we do is pray.
- Mark Batterson
opportunities typically come disguised as impossible problems. And while most people run away from their problems, Shamgars run at them with their oxgoads.
- Mark Batterson