Quotes About Perseverance

I think I got stamina from my dad, although he didn't have a lot of drive.

When you win a championship, you realize it takes a level of stamina that most people don't have.

When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.

People always ask me why I still want to play, but I want to know why no one will give me an opportunity. It's like they put a stamp on me: 'Hall of Fame. You're done. That's it.'

My toenails are out of my foot because of all the stamps I have received during games. But it's fine. This is the Premier League and the way they play here.

I feel like, 20 years from now, if I can look back at a 15-year NXT career, it just means more to me. It means a lot to me to have that be something that, yeah, that was my stamp.

If I have a daughter and she grows up to be an astronaut, she's gonna end up on a Black History Month stamp.

I'm really going to put a stamp on my career by beating Cruz.

I would never want people to point at me and say, 'Well, she got herself off of food stamps, so anybody can if they work hard enough.' It's just not true.

Stan Hansen was a different ballgame. I broke my neck wrestling him in Madison Square Garden. I spent a month in the hospital and for a while it was touch and go because the doctors told me I came within a millimeter of being paralyzed from the neck down.

We didn't crumble after 9/11. We didn't falter after the Boston Marathon. But we're America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.

If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

People who really love you are the ones who stand firm by you when things are bleak.

Leadership and greatness comes to those who follow-through. Who stand for near-flawless execution.

My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.

If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.

I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.

We can stand in line to buy groceries, we can stand in line to ride at Six flags, and we can stand in line for things that we think are very important.

The work will stand, no matter what.

People can expect to see a lot of me - I'm not too proud to stand on corners and hold my campaign signs.

I hated losing. Being defeated made me sick, I couldn't stand it.