Quotes About Perseverance

Even if your teams are doing lousy and you don't have a good concert, you are still going to be Madison Square Garden, you are still going to be the 'showplace of America.'

Tough teams win when the shots are not going.

When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he also wanted to know what it took to be successful. He coached a lot of our sports teams growing up. We weren't very good, but we learned about hard work and enjoying life and your teammates.

There is hard work involved, and maybe many people wouldn't like that. But for the best teams in the world who can do that without losing too many points, then it's just great.

Sometimes it is difficult to play against teams who just drop back and try to defend.

Bueno, todos debemos hacer cosas que no nos gustan, la vida es así.

And I know it would be hard—for all sorts of reasons. But I think we can handle whatever comes our way, so long as we keep loving each other like this.

Being next to him like this made me feel as though everything really would be okay. Not because he'd fix things for me, but because I was reminded of the good in my life and why I had to fight for it. I won't admit defeat again.

is the only escape plan we need.

My battered friends and I had just had a brush with death, dancing with this evil.

One step at a time," murmured Abe. "No point in letting the larger picture overwhelm us. We'll just start at the beginning.

I decided to play up what I had. I retied my bow tie and put the tuxedo jacket back on. "Let's do this," I said to the waiting guardians.

Dark times were ahead of us, but with his kiss still burning on my lips, I felt like I could do anything

We all have moments of weakness. It's how we recover from them that really counts.

been here sooner," growled Wolfe, calling the pack off with a quick gesture. "But that bitch tied me up. Had to wait for the dogs to gnaw through my ropes.

If you're on the path of right, and someone crosses it with wrong, you don't need to turn. Build a bridge over their path and continue on your way.

Carter] shook it off. "Don't worry about it. We all have moments of weakness. It's how we recover from them that really counts." (Chapter 19)

I apparently didn't believe in sleep, either, because I didn't get much of it that night.

You know, we've finally made it. We did it this time. They'll never be able to hide us again.

The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.

Brooke's deputy, General Sir John Kennedy, observed of Churchill: "He is difficult enough when things are going badly, more difficult when nothing is happening, and quite unmanageable when all is going well.

In one typical battalion, of forty-one officers who had landed on Sicily in July, only nine remained, and six of them had been wounded, according

Captain Evelyn Waugh of the British Army wrote of the Stuka, "Like all things German, it is very efficient and goes on much too long.

If you didn't play the plebe system as if it were a game, he thought, it could be a debilitating ordeal.