Quotes About Perseverance

To achieve success, whatever the job we have, we must pay a price.

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

When you're tired, you rationalize. You make excuses in your mind. You say, "I'm too tired; I'm bushed; I can't do this; I'll loaf." Then you're a coward.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hours--his greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear--is the moment when he has worked his heart out in good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle--victorious.

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.

Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

The quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's personal commitment to excellence and to victory.

You have to pay the price to win and you have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible. Most important, you must pay the price to stay there.

I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline.

The game of life is good, though all of life may be hurt, and though all lives lose the game in the end.

Stupid women, and all are stupid, think the first winning of the man the final victory. Then they settle down and grow fat, and stale, and dead, and heartbroken. Alas, they are so stupid. But you, little infant-woman with your first victory, you must make your love-life an unending chain of victories. Each day you must win your man again. And when you have won the last victory, when you can find no more to win, then ends love. Finis is written, and your man wanders in strange gardens.

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

Nothing lasts forever But there is always something.

I've been around and I've noticed that walking's easy when the road is flat; them danged ole hiils will get you every time. Yeah, the good Lord gave us mountains so we could learn how to climb.

I've been around and I've noticed that walking's easy when the road is flat; those big ol' hills will get you every time. The good Lord gave us mountains so we could learn how to climb.

Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

In this world, a man must be either anvil or hammer.

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained in sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.