Quotes About Perseverance

Life's battles don't always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can.

Volleyball anchored me at a time in my life when I needed it. It gave me a reason for being this big, big girl.

I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.

Following Christ means following him through life, following him in every word and gesture, following him out of one clime into another.

The American dream does not come to those who fall asleep.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.

I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage – though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow.

The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh.

I like to see life with its teeth out.

There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.

If you're going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

I have not suffered a lot for Christ, but I want to tell you that those times that I have suffered and I knew it was for Jesus, have been some of the happiest times of my entire life.

I always thought that life was about standing your ground, no matter how strong the current was. But going with the flow isn't so bad after all. As long as it takes you forward.

I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

Good things might happen in your life or bad things might happen, sometimes terrible things, but no matter what happens, your soul is your own. And no one and nothing can stop you.

I failed, many times in my life. One failure that I always remember was when my second book was rejected by 36 publishers. Many years later, I watched HuffPost come alive

Life is not the mountaintops, it's the walking in between.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope.

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure Les jours s'en vont je demeure

In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.

An easy, non-self-denying life will never be one of power.