Do It for a Day Quotes

“Faith is taking the first step before God reveals the second step.”
― Mark Batterson, Do It for a Day: How to Make or Break Any Habit in 30 Days

“growth mindset is the belief that capabilities can be cultivated, regardless of circumstances. It’s nurture over nature. It’s mind over matter. It’s the belief that almost anyone can accomplish almost anything if they work at it long enough, hard enough, and smart enough! Your failure doesn’t own you if you own it. How? You leverage it by learning from it. Nine times out of ten, failure is the result of poorly managed success. But let me flip that script—success is the result of well-managed failure.”
― Mark Batterson, Do It for a Day: How to Make or Break Any Habit in 30 Days

“Our pastor of prayer, Heidi Scanlon, doesn’t have accountability partners. She has expectability partners. I like that language. All too often, accountability partners focus on sin management. Sure, we need people to hold us to certain standards. But we also need people who expect the best and bring out the best in us! It’s someone who holds us to a higher standard. An expectability partner asks the question, What are you expecting from God? And those sanctified expectations need to be beyond your ability and beyond your resources!”
― Mark Batterson, Do It for a Day: How to Make or Break Any Habit in 30 Days

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― Mark Batterson, Do It for a Day: How to Make or Break Any Habit in 30 Days

“Twenty years later, Diana Nyad would attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida. She swam seventy-eight miles in forty-two hours, but strong winds stopped her short of her goal.”
― Mark Batterson, Do It for a Day: How to Make or Break Any Habit in 30 Days

“Almost anyone can accomplish almost anything if they work at it long enough, hard enough, and smart enough.”
― Mark Batterson, Do It for a Day: How to Make or Break Any Habit in 30 Days

“One of the mistakes we make as parents and as leaders is this: we do everything within our power to create emotional and relational and spiritual biospheres. We avoid conflict. We mitigate risk. We minimize discomfort. We sidestep sacrifice. Then we wonder why people grow to a certain stature and stop. We wonder why leaders fall.”
― Mark Batterson, Do It for a Day: How to Make or Break Any Habit in 30 Days

“You are one habit away from getting into shape. You are one habit away from financial freedom. You are one habit away from mental health. You are one habit away from a happy, healthy marriage. You are one habit away from any goal you set. The only catch? It has to be a daily habit!”
― Mark Batterson, Do It for a Day: How to Make or Break Any Habit in 30 Days