Quotes about Perseverance

After you have listed the top five excuses, craft a sentence or two that overcomes each objection.

I'm convinced every person has a longing that will never be fulfilled and it's our job to let it live and breathe and suffer within it as a way of developing our character.

What else changes a person but the living of a story? And what is a story but the wanting for something difficult and the willingness to work for it?

You put your characters through hell. You put them through hell. That's the only way we change.

Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy.

Nothing is easy. But who wants nothing?

an entrepreneur's ability to find strength when others want to run, hide, quit, or blame someone else for their failures.

Somebody may say, "But I may not be able to hold out." He is going to do that for you—He will hold you. His sheep are safe, my friend.

It is a true saying of good Archbishop Leighton: 'The way of sin is down hill; a man cannot stop when he would.

The cross sometimes means the afflictions and trials which believers in Christ have to go through if they follow Christ faithfully for their religion's sake.

Do we ourselves repent? This, after all, is the question which most nearly concerns us. Have we been convinced of sin by the Holy Spirit? Have we fled to Jesus for deliverance from the wrath to come? Do we know anything of a broken and contrite heart, and a thorough hatred of sin? Can we say, "I repent," as well as "I believe?" If not, let us not delude our minds with the idea that our sins are yet forgiven. It is written, "Except you repent, you shall all likewise perish." (Luke 13:3.)

will never hesitate to tell people that inward conflict is no proof that a person is not holy, and that they must not think they are not sanctified because they do not feel entirely free from inward struggle. We will doubtless have such freedom in heaven, but we will never enjoy it in this world.