Quotes About Perseverance

Go fail or succeed on your own merits, be your own man.

Our country and our nation have again only one message to those who attack us - you will not succeed!

When you do life a certain way, it's bound to give you a higher level of probability to succeed, and that's what we preach.

I would never know how good I was if I didn't have Bob Arum. Bob Arum is white, Jewish; He was working for prosecutor's office. I'm black, an ex-convict, ex-number runner. Who would be most likely to succeed? It would be Bob 100-1. Yet I beat Bob on everything we ever done, with love.

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

This game is a game of failure, and you're going to fail a heck of a lot more than you succeed in it.

I want people to know where I come from. I think I have come really far from that, and I did it on my own. It's sort of the American dream to come from absolutely nothing and to succeed while still doing something that you love. Not compromising yourself in any way. I hope I'm making Jersey proud in that way.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

The Ford family wants the company to succeed. Period.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again.

From the time I was a student, I think I was very confident in my raw abilities. I would think that, given a problem, I was as likely to solve it as anybody. But that's not enough in science to succeed, really.

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

I've got family, people that really care and want to see me succeed and push me.

Whatever you believe in, and if you keep trying, you can eventually succeed.

I think being optimistic is ensuring your success. If you start out saying 'I've got this problem,' or 'I'm angry at that,' you will not succeed.

Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed.

I just love kids. As a kid, I grew up in a poor country with a poor family that had nothing. I loved anyone who could come into my life, in from the outside, and give me advice that could help me succeed. I believe that there are a lot of people who came into my life that made me Dikembe Mutombo.

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

Despite his NFL pedigree, Clay Matthews had to fight every step of the way to get to the NFL. Once there, he's had a unique appreciation of what it took to succeed.

Never say that your life is to be a singer. You want to sing because it's a part of your life. But if you don't succeed as a singer, it doesn't mean you don't have a life and it's over.

When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed.

Any entrepreneur has to prepare for a lot of dark days, and they've got to really like what they are doing, and they have to have a reason for it to succeed.

I'm not grateful for depression, but it honestly made me work harder and gave me the drive that I have to succeed and to make it work.