Life can get hard. Fear, weariness, and discouragement happen to us all. When that happens, we need encouragement and power. We need fuel to give us the strength to keep going through the hard places. Words that will fuel our hearts to have courage. Words to fuel for our minds to be stronger.
When Life. Just. Feels. So. Hard. – words can be the fuel to keep us going. So many things can make life hard. But it’s true. We can do hard things.
No matter what has made life hard for you, here are words to fuel you.
Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. – F. Scott Fitzgerald Share on XNever confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas A. Edison
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. – Maya Angelou
- Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go. – Joshua 1:9
If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. – George S. Patton
Achievement requires more than a vision – it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality. – Earl Nightingale
Maintain that motivation to go from A to B and to keep your focus on that target without any weakening. That is called tenacity; stamina in your motivation. – Arsene Wenger
- It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe. – Muhammad Ali
Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord. – David, Psalm 31:24
- We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. – Deuteronomy 31:6
- Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway. – John Wayne
Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior. – Carl von Clausewitz
I see your fear, and it’s big. I also see your courage, and it’s bigger. We can do hard things. – Glennon Doyle
I can do all things through him who strengthens me. – Philippians 4:13
To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up. – Ralph Bunche
- But he answered me, “My grace is always more than enough for you, and my power finds its full expression through your weakness.” So I will celebrate my weaknesses, for when I’m weak I sense more deeply the mighty power of Christ living in me. – 2 Corinthians 12:9
Persistence is doing something again and again until it works. It sounds like ‘pestering’ for a reason. Tenacity is using new data to make new decisions to find new pathways to find new ways to achieve a goal when the old ways didn’t work. Telemarketers are persistent, Nike is tenacious. – Seth Godin
- Tenacity is more than endurance, it is endurance combined with the absolute certainty that what we are looking for is going to transpire. – Oswald Chambers
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up. – Paul, Galatians 6:9
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