Quotes About Perseverance

Deciding to commit yourself to long term results rather than short term fixes is as important as any decision you'll make in your lifetime.

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.

Many times you will fail. That is the nature of the world, and the truth of life. But when you find your horse again, will go back or will you go forward?

My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in first place. I hope that inspired people to never give up.

Your ups and downs in sports, I think they are as normal as daily life: One day you wake up and feel great, the next day you wake up and feel maybe less great.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

You just got ta believe, i have never been a quitter in my life or in my career.

No matter what else comes, your courage will be your companion for life.

Walking through this life really is walking through fire.

The daily life is so wearisome; yet duty lies that way.

Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.

Football is a direct reflection of life. There are wins, there are losses; you get knocked down, you get back up.

You have a number of choices. You could continue to always fight against people who are really distractions. They're people in the cheap seats of life. Or you can do what you went there to do.

Life's gonna give me another set. I know it will.

Are the odds you face (in life) defeating or motivating you?

One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.

My faith is a wounded faith, but it's not without faith. My life is not without faith.

Will power is human electricity. You have enough of this electricity generated in you to achieve the greatest things in life if you will keep the current on.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Don't go through life, grow through life.

My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me I was very smart, I wouldn't have tried to improve.

In my community there were two groups of people, There were the ones who did not die and the ones who came back to life.

All my life I've swam in the loo butterfly style.

Sometimes in life situations develop that only the half-crazy can get out of.