Quotes about Perseverance

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.

Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.

There is no sport as competitive as business. It's 24 by 7 by 365 by forever.

Let the hard things in life break you. Let them effect you. Let them change you. Let these hard moments inform you. Let this pain be your teacher. The experiences of your life are trying to tell you something about yourself. Don't cop out on that. Don't run away and hide under your covers. Lean into it.

Son, as long as you live, Satan will use what you see and what you hear against you.

Job was still in God's will even when he lost his children, wealth, and health.

There is always a Ziklag battle before a Zion victory.

Everyone who runs the race can have a special level of grace.

Saint Thomas Aquinas says, wisely, that the only way to drive out a bad passion is by a stronger good passion. The same is true of thoughts as of passions. When your mind wanders, like a child, your will must bring it back, like a mother. [. . .] The will-parent must discipline the mind-child, avoiding both the opposite extremes commonly made in disciplining either children or thoughts: tyranny or permissiveness.

We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to try. Now count the times it tells us to trust.

One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.