Quotes About Perseverance

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Writing is a lonely business.

But one discarded dreams and got dressed, and made what one could of the day.

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.

If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life.

I've had hard coaches all my life.

A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

It's just life. You can't beat life.

In life, redemption was walking up the down escalator: stop to congratulate yourself, and back you slid.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.

Martial arts have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember.

I haven't backed down from a fight in my life, and I won't start tonight.

The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.

Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.

I suspect that these traits-desire, commitment, and good work habits-are important in all facets of our lives. . .

You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited.

Our trials are supposed to turn us toward God, but we whine and complain and wish someone would turn down the fire so we could have our old life back the way it was.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.

Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.