Quotes About Perseverance

It really shaped me as a person going to DeMatha. Anyone that plays athletics or does music or does whatever, it teaches them to work to the best of their abilities.

For those of us learning the way to financial serenity and solvency, the envelope system teaches prudence, patience, and perseverance. You can only spend what you have.

I believe failure sometimes teaches you more than success.

If any event teaches you how to perform on no sleep, it's a hurricane.

The human spirit is so resilient, and failure teaches you so much.

I'll tell you what 20 years teaches you - is that if one thing doesn't last something else will come down the pipe and to go from that and to do these films now.

There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.

It's not easy to retire. No one teaches you how. I found that out when I tried it the first time. I'm not a quitter.

Pain's not bad, it's good. It teaches you things. I understand that.

I've played sports pretty much my whole life, and that teaches you how to work with anyone, whether you like that person or you don't, and whether you get along with them or you don't. The circumstances don't matter. Team work is part of life.

It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the loss.

I don't like to be negative about math because it really teaches you a lot of great things. You kind of use math every day.

Being a dancer or athlete of any type teaches you the fundamentals of discipline... and the ability to know you can grow.

My main goal for taking up acting as a profession was to show that sport or MMA teaches you life skills that can be applied to any profession in the world.

For me, failure is not a bad thing because it teaches you how to succeed.

I think sports is good for goal setting, and I think it teaches you some important values.

Engineering is about finding solutions with a commitment to ongoing refinement. That's what engineering training teaches you.

Nothing really teaches you for the film world.

If war teaches you anything, it is an appreciation of being alive.

Failure teaches you a lot more than success.

Growing up in Africa teaches you to become patient.

I loved being poor, because it teaches you humility.

Just going through a full year of the NBA teaches you a lot of different things.

Standing up and teaching is grueling, but grueling fun.