Quotes About Perseverance

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'

I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too.

Get off your bottom and be the stand, and do the work you can to pursue the American Dream for yourself, and help others to do the same.

America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way.

When things get heated, you are pulled in different directions, and you've to stand firm.

I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible.

The moment I'm most proud of my career is when I got dropped by the headkick by Carlos Condit. I fell down and I was able to stand up.

It's almost as easy to stand up as it is to sit down.

When you're so consistent, people have to stand up and take notice. I don't think people recognise or praise consistency enough.

You don't realize how strong you are until you have to help someone else stand up.

When I gave up law to go into real estate, my mother said, 'How can you give up the law?' But she lived long enough to see the Bulls win all six championships. She would wear all six pendants at the same time. She could barely stand up.

As the blowback against those who stand up for what is right thickens, I feel it is necessary to push forward with a relentless determination.

I always stand up for what I believe and what I want to.

There will be times in South Africa when we will be challenged as a team. We have to stand up to that.

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

I stand up for what I believe. I don't know if it's always paid off for me, because I've been ridiculed and humiliated.

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.

When you get to the extremes there is, sometimes, just the need where you have to stand up.

And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.

That's not in my nature to run away - I'll stand up and fight.

It's a hard thing when you've got guns pointed at you, to still stand up for what you believe in. Jimmie Lee and his family did that, and several others.

When you bottom out, you have to stand up and get going again.