Quotes About Perseverance

The quality of people's lives is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour.

You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.

Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience.

Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

From my many years experience I can unhesitatingly say that the cross bears those who bear the cross.

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

If you learn from an experience, that's good - so nothing bad happened to you.

The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.

If experience was so important, we'd never have had anyone walk on the moon.

A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.

My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.

I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.

Too many times we're looking for ways to get around deep waters and dangerous fires, rather than through them. Has this ever been your experience?

Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real, even though our feet bleed on its stones.

All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable.

When I tap, it means I've accepted the technique, learned the lesson and look to apply the experience next time I step on the mat. I never give up.

The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.

Train hard and try new things; everything you do outside of the cage counts as experience inside the cage.

Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.