Quotes About Perseverance

The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.

Perhaps I don't give the impression that I'm hurting on the track. But that is because I am animated by an interior force which covers my suffering.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.

Growth and change are never easy...If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.

In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.

Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.

"Face the brutes." That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.

Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.

You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Get up every day, love God, and do your best. He will do the rest!

If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.

Some of my greatest pleasures have come from finding ways to overcome obstacles.

You must get good at one of two things; planting in the spring or begging in the fall.

Set high standards for yourself and don't settle for anything less. You are the best judge of yourself and your capabilities.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

You know looking back on it now I used the fight and after the fight as motivation, to make sure I was going to be the best middleweight in the world for a long time.

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

Others can stop you temporarily - you are the only one who can do it permanently.

You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerly believe and enthusiastically act upon ... must inevitably come to pass.

Many things have fallen only to rise higher.