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Quotes About Perseverance

Super-success is not for everyone, and you will endure weeks and months and years of hard work, obstacles, failures, victories, pain, and any manner of 'negative' experiences to reap the rewards of success, drink from the golden goblet, own the brass ring.
~ Dan Pena
I'm very grateful to God for what he gives me. Victories, remarkable victories, but you have to go through the defeats. That is why I praise God for everything.
~ Fedor Emelianenko
Tennis runs in cycles. There are victories. There are disappointments.
~ Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.
~ John Sayles
I honestly cannot explain why my relationship with fans is so strong but, possibly, it's due to the way I see football. I have always seen it as the result of great sacrifice, sacrifices you make every day for the victories, and hard work.
~ Pavel Nedved
Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
~ Sam Donaldson
When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small victories, you will eventually win the war.
~ Ian K. Smith
As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
America is full of success stories featuring victories by the underdog.
~ Mike Gallagher
I am still hungry; I still hate defeats. There is no substitute for victories.
~ Ottmar Hitzfeld
I learned early on that extraordinary challenges lead to extraordinary victories.
~ Victoria Arlen
There is a belief that getting any particular job may depend on who has just had five consecutive victories. If that's the way it is, I've got a healthy attitude.
~ Roy Hodgson
I'm not gonna get it all right, but I take my victories, as small as they are.
~ Billy Squier
I did not have to prove anything to people who doubted me, just to my team-mates and to Barcelona. The best thing is to do it on the field, with victories, with goals. But more than the goals is winning matches.
~ Paulinho
I think the bottom line, even though there are some bumps and bruises here and there, is Kobe will lead you to victories.
~ Mike D'Antoni
I think it's imperative of me to advance that theory that you can win your small victories against the dark.
~ Mark Waid
Some of my biggest victories have come directly after some of my biggest failures.
~ Diamond Dallas Page
I've always wanted to become a grand-slam champion and to become the best in the world. Without that, the victories aren't as sweet or the defeats as motivating.
~ Johanna Konta
My father had an expression, if you want to know the road ahead, ask the person that's been there. We found that person. Ten Super Bowl appearances, seven victories... Tom Brady.
~ Joel Glazer
Every opportunity that presents itself, my main objective is to conquer and be victorious.
~ Kaka
I went into 'RuPaul's Drag Race' saying, 'I'll never cry.' Because they make fun of every queen that cries on the show. And I did cry, and I did scream, and I did have doubt, and I did have great, victorious moments.
~ Sharon Needles
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
~ Richard M. Nixon
I guess one of the reasons I'm doing the Poe piece is that I think Poe demonstrates that no matter how difficult things are, if you continue to move forward in life, you can eventually become victorious, even if it's later in life.
~ John Astin