Quotes About Perseverance

If we choose to be no more than clods of clay then we shall be used as clods of clay for braver feet to tread on.

Always imitate the behavior of the winner when you lose.

It is easy enough to be pleasant when life flows by like a song. But the man worthwhile is one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep in the other that it may not be dismayed.

My center is giving way my right is in retreat: situation excellent. I am attacking.

Retreat? We're coming out of here as a Marine division. We're bring ... our dead. Retreat hell! We're just advancing in another direction.

I can't say I was ever lost but I was bewildered once for three days.

Anyone can have an off decade.

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.

I will say this about being an optimist: even when things don't turn out well you are certain they will get better.

We have a problem. "Congratulations." But it's a tough problem. "Then double congratulations."

I learned really to practice mustard seed faith and positive thinking and remarkable things happened.

The greatest triumph is victory over all trials.

I have a positive mental attitude, and I think I'm divine, but I also think it takes a heck of a lot of blood, sweat and tears.

Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.

Fear of failure, it's the greatest motivational tool. It drives me and drives me and drives me.

I work so hard to make that sure I'm successful. If you're positive and really excited and enthusiastic about what you're doing, it's going to happen, and it's going to happen big time.

I do a good job of staying positive and just moving on.

People shouldn't look at me and think life is one big piece of glamour. That's the marketing, the spin. Life is challenging. But I have courage, strength, and enough good health to see the positive.

Stubbornness is a positive quality of presidential leadership - if you're right about what you're stubborn about.

A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.

My thing is that I don't give no person that much power over my path that I'm walking. Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God.

I will keep the ground that God has given me and perhaps in his grace, he will ignite me again. But ignite me or not, in his grace, in his power, I will hold the ground.

Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.