perseverance

God's grace grant us immeasurable ability to overcome adversity of any type.

Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

You got up off the bathroom floor. That__ a start. Now, just stay off the floor. After all__side from winning the lottery__ll any of us can ever really hope for is more days spent standing tall than spent in pieces on the floor.

Believe be and strong enough in virtues like character, faithfulness, hard work, dignity of labor, diligence, excellence, perseverance, truth, responsibility, delayed gratification, contentment, trust, integrity and stop looking for miracles.

Could our plodding, our daily persevering through a life we didn't expect, don't want and didn't choose, actually bring blessing?

Here is a boy who was waiting to be punished. But then, unexpectedly,he ¯nds that his fault has been overlooked or forgiven and at once the worldreappears in brilliant colors, full of delightful prospects. Here is a soldier whowas waiting, with a heavy heart, to su®er and die in battle. But suddenlythe luck has changed. There is news! The war is over and everyone burstsout singing! He will go home after all! The sparrows in the plowland werecrouching in terror of the kestrel. But she has gone; and they °y pell-mell upthe hedgerow, frisking, chattering and perching where they will.

I have seen the light in the wilderness and I must follow it.

Stars shine even for those who refuse to look up.

You can'tstop dreamingjust becausethe night neverseems toend.

To meditate is to sail a course, to navigate, among problems many of which we are in the process of clearing up. After each one looms another, whose shores are even more attractive, more suggestive. Certainly, it requires strength and perseverance to get to windward of problems, but there is no greater delight than to reach new shores, and even to sail, as Camoëns says, __hrough seas that keel has never cut before._ If you will now open a bank-account of attention for me, I foretell sun-smitten landscapes and promise archipelagoes.

You learn more from getting your butt kicked than getting it kissed.

Perseverance is everything. We all stumbled when we took our first steps yet we were running sooner than we realized, and then we couldn__ stay still. Why stay still now?

While there may be various tips, pointers, ingredients, and strategies to success, there is no one formula that always guarantees it other than to keep learning from failure itself.

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.

We should keep learning so long as we have grace and breathe.

On athleticism, God knows no favor. It seems rather he is in the business of teaching winners how to lose and losers how to win.

Boy, the solid things you can hold in your hands are never all you've got. They're the least of what belong to you. The qualities inside you, those are what you've really got to defend yourself with.