Quotes About Perseverance

There was pride in the shirt. There was sweat in the shirt. There was blood in the shirt.

Dean Marney has also thrown his hat into the ring after Saturday. The more hats there are in the ring, the harder my job is.

It took me 17 years to get 3000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course." —HANK AARON

Scottish writer George MacDonald once said, "No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Never load yourself so.

What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.

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I'm going to be around until the Atomic Energy Commission finds a safe place to bury my liver.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Fall down seven times. Stand up eight. JAPANESE PROVERB

That's why at the start of every season I always encouraged players to focus on the journey rather than the goal. What matters most is playing the game the right way and having the courage to grow, as human beings as well as basketball players. When you do that, the ring takes care of itself.

I don't care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program - that emotion will fade.

FOR THE SHORTEST month, drab February can last for ever.

Get knocked down seven times. Get up eight times. —JAPANESE PROVERB

Poverty and desperation are the parents of ambition. (character Norm Woodruff)

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sort of like what Mom says marriage is like. She says it's like a job where you know the end product is worthwhile but sometimes you hate getting up early for it every day.

The essence of the Marine Corps experience, I decided, was pain.

Robert still lives in Morenci, Arizona, working in its mines. He is divorced now and sees his two daughters on weekends. When he can, he drives to El Paso to see his mother and his siblings. He has stopped using drugs and avoids trouble at all costs.

There's a will, there's a way my friend.

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

As a man of sense never at?tempts impossibilities, on one hand, or the other, he is never discouraged by difficulties: on the contrary, he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres, and infallibly prevails at last.

then you go through a long life like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest."23

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

Everyone must choose one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. – Jim Rohn, entrepreneur and motivational speaker