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The Importance of Prayer

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He who moves mountains must make prayer a life habit.
— Gordon Lindsay

Each morning I will look to you in heaven and lay my requests before you, praying earnestly.
— Psalm 5:3 (TLB)

Prayer is a means of adding power to the strength we already possess. Sometimes we know what is right, but we lack the will power to do it.
— Harry Stock

Prayer is an armor – do not go into your day without it.
— Anonymous

Make a plan to keep a daily appointment with God. The enemy is going to tell you to set it aside, but you must carve out the time. If you’re too busy to meet with the Lord, friend, then you are simply too busy.
— Charles Swindoll

Great Ability Not Required

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How many folks estimate difficulties in the light of their own resources and then attempt little and often fail in the little they attempt. All God’s giants have been weak men and women who did great things for God because they counted on His faithfulness.
— J. Hudson Taylor

Whenever God designs to make His servants eminently useful, He lets them know their frailty.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

If you are weak, limited, ordinary, you are the best material through which God can work.
— Henry Blackaby and Claude King

God created the world out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.
— Martin Luther

The weaker I am the more room there is for God to get the glory.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Overcome Weaknesses

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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
— Henry Link

Admit your weaknesses and establish short-term goals to overcome them.
— Rick Pitino

I became a better football player, not because I was faster or could catch the ball better, but I taught myself to do a lot of things that other guys didn’t.
— Mike Ditka

Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to your limitations again.
— James Cook

I’d had operations on both feet at the age of 13 to correct some bone deformities and I’d been in plaster for six months, and when the plaster came off, I had to learn to walk and run properly. A year later I joined the running club, doing the sprints.
— Anne Audain

Talent

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When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
— John Ruskin

People do not lack strength; they lack will.
— Victor Hugo

Talent minus hard work equals zero success.
— Earl Woods

People with real talent pay no attention to people who question their dreams. When they fail, they pick themselves up and start chasing the dream again. They understand that they will be happy chasing their dreams even if they don’t achieve them, because a person who is chasing a dream is a person who is excited, vital and alive.
— Dr. Bob Rotella

The Importance of Work

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We told our guys to hold on for 30 minutes of agony for 12 months of glory.
— John McDonnell, on Arkansas winning the 1993 NCAA Cross-Country title

Each year, the older I get, the harder I work because it takes that much more each week to come back.
— John Elway

Whatever you do, if you do it hard enough you’ll enjoy it. The important thing is to work and work hard.
— David Rockefeller

When I was fifteen, I had lucky underwear. When that failed, I had a lucky hairdo, then a lucky race number, even lucky race days. After fifteen years, I’ve found the secret to success is simple. It’s hard work.
— Margaret Gross

The Power of Desire

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The championships, the money, the color; all of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win; these are the things that endure.
— Vince Lombardi

If you lose your desire in anything, you don’t do it as well.
— Byron Nelson

A man of devotion is always a man of desires; the best people are fullest of longings to be better.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

To win you must have talent and desire – but desire is first.
— Sam Snead

Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top – it is the willpower that is the most important. This will power you cannot buy with money or be given by others – it rises from your heart.
— Junko Tabei, after becoming the first woman to climb Everest

Purpose

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I can’t believe God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
— Lou Holtz

If all I’m remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I’ve done a bad job with the rest of my life.
— Isiah Thomas

When I hear someone talking about purpose, I like to sense some humility. You must realize that God doesn’t want you to trust in your own abilities, but in Him.
— John Stanko

The Christian believes that he was created to know, love and serve God in this world and to be happy with Him in the next. That is the sole reason for his existence.
— Evelyn Waugh

The highest service may be prepared for and done in the humblest surroundings. In silence, in waiting, in obscure, unnoticed offices, in years of uneventful, unrecorded duties, the Son of God grew and waxed strong.
— Inscription in the Chapel of Stanford University