Quotes About Perseverance

Where there are difficulties, there will always be opportunities.

It is important always to make full use of opportunities that come your way, and at the same time, it is important to not just cope with the challenges but try and convert each challenge into an opportunity.

I try to make the best of the opportunities that have been given to me.

Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.

As a leader, you don't get too high on the highs or let the bumps balance down. Every leader over time has probably equal amount of good luck or bad luck - or, you could argue, has good opportunities or challenges.

The biggest thing is being a man of your own time, combining craft with the graft, creating your own opportunities.

When I got out, there weren't too many job opportunities for snipers.

No one is going to give me opportunities. I've gotta take them.

I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.

I think you grow through your experiences; you get better as you grow and I'm not nearly where I think I'm going to be eventually where I inspire to be and hopefully the opportunities will continue to come.

It's a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips.

I'm grateful for every opportunity. I learned the hard way.

When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there.

Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot. You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.

You can't fail. The further you fall, the greater the opportunity for growth and change.

Faith is not a commodity that you either have or don't have enough of, or the right kind of. It's an ongoing process. The opposite of faith is despair.

There have been lots of times in my career where you go four or five games and feel like you can't hit anything. And you also have the exact opposite.

Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.

I've been on the opposite side of decisions before when the crowd would be booing and saying that I lost. I've lived with it. Judging in boxing has been same since the beginning, and it isn't gonna change.

You shouldn't end a band like Westlife and not be financially secure to some extent, but I wasn't at all - it was the complete opposite. But you look at stuff then, 'Well, what do I have? I don't have money but I have a great marriage, three healthy kids, and I have my voice. I'll just start again.'

If I have a golden touch, I'd also say that I have the opposite of whatever a golden touch is, because I've had a lot of things fail. I think part of the experience of being successful is that you have to have a lot of stuff not work.

For some strange reason, my gay life didn't get easier when I came out. Quite the opposite happened, really.

For me, opposition is just another opposition.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.