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If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions; if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin.

But you be strong! Don’t let your hands be slack, for your work will be rewarded.”

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

Blessed is a person who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to those who love him.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

Let endurance have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I will come out like gold.

I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In any and all circumstances I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

Do the things which you learned, received, heard, and saw in me, and the God of peace will be with you.

for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for Yahweh holds him up with his hand.

Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath. Don’t fret; it leads only to evildoing.

I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.

Make up your minds that you are going to overcome every discouragement, and that you are not going to let any discouragement overcome you.

out of the hard and unusual struggle through which he is compelled to pass, he gets a strength, a confidence, that one misses whose pathway is comparatively smooth

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed

I will not say that I became discouraged, for as I now look back over my life I do not recall that I ever became discouraged over anything that I set out to accomplish.

My life had its beginning in the midst of the most miserable, desolate, and discouraging surroundings.

A phase of my life was closing to-night, a new one opening to-morrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished.