Quotes About Perseverance

Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.

Just because you have opposition doesn't make you a great leader.

When the opposition sits back and defends well and together, it's difficult.

If we are confident of what we can do, then all opposition simply has to be treated as a whole.

The more I get better, the opposition has to get better.

Whether it's microaggressions or blatant racism, it's always been a fight. We've been fighting oppression for 400 years and it will continue to be a fight.

No force, oppression, imprisonment, jail... nothing will stop me.

Well, when you think about it black American culture evolved over three and a half centuries. Every minute under which they lived under oppression and they adapted to dealing with the fact that those freedoms were going to be cut off. They had to somehow make a life within all of those restriction, and they did.

My idols are Oprah and Martha. From nothing, they built industries.

I spent a lot of times sitting in big rooms full of a lot of men and executives thinking, 'What would Oprah say right now?' and trying to channel that as hard as I could. And mostly that was just about having the confidence. If this woman did it, it can be done. And there's no reason for anybody to stop you.

Oprah is definitely a self-made woman and she came from being dirt poor, as did I.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

Optimism is the opium of the people.

My optimism holds that the good guys eventually come out on top.

True hopefulness and optimism is what leads one to dare. It is also what lifts one back up to dare again after a failed attempt.

What keeps athletes going is the optimism we are going to be able to compete again.

I am full of optimism. The world hasn't beaten it out of me yet. And I'm going to work very hard to make sure that they don't.

Optimism - even, and perhaps especially in the face of difficulty - has long been an American hallmark.

I've been anxious but not depressed. I'm an incorrigible optimist.

My kids are resilient, I'm resilient, and I guess I am an optimist.

I am an eternal optimist. I always say 'Yihyeh Tov' or 'It'll get better.'

I'm an optimist, and I'll stay in situations for much longer than I should, just thinking that they'll work themselves out.

I've been criticised for being an eternal optimist.

I have to be an optimist and say that it might get better.