Quotes About Perseverance

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

As a cricketer - or any sportsperson, for that matter - you like yourself to be tested and get better all the time.

I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.

I want to be tested until my limit.

Sometimes, I think, in order to get to something that we really want or we really love or something that needs to be realized, that we're tested.

It's all about persevering. You know you're going to be tested. If you keep your eyes fixed on Christ, He's going to reward you.

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

You'll be tested every single day.

I was tested against the best.

I learned that you're going to be tested in the NFL. There's going to be highs, there's going to be lows. You got to stay poised through it all.

When you know that batting will be tough, that the ball might move around and your technique will be tested, you have to make sure that you don't give the bowlers any more advantages.

I'm being tested each and every day. That's how life is.

When we are faced with adversity, when we are tested on who we are and what we stand for, we always pull together. We stand strong for our values and our way of life. We always have, and I know we always will.

I think everyone has to have their mettle tested in a tough fight.

Once you go through something and come out of the storm, you've been tested.

With my time in the league, what I will be most proud of is the fact that my character, values and faith were tested, and I persevered.

We've been tested by every force of nature, disease, and human frailty.

I've been through the fire and came out stronger and tested.

I think anybody that's worked hard and has built something and has been successful can testify to how, you know, how wonderful that was, how wonderful it still is.

We thought playing in the Super Bowl was nerve-racking until we went to the Massachusetts State House to testify for an education bill.

God doesn't put anyone someplace permanently. I am a living testimony to that.

In order to have a testimony, you have to have a test.

If you are spiritual and faithful about your situation, you'll make it through it. And my life is a testimony to that.

I have to keep testing myself.