Quotes About Perseverance

Remember That Success Can Take Months—or Years—to Achieve but Can Be Undone in Minutes.

Sometime you can do everything right and still lose. It's all a journey. You do your best, and then you have to let it go. Lots of people preach that, but come crunch time—oops, not so easy to do.

Personal greatness is not determined by the size of the job, but by the size of the effort one puts into the job. This applies to everyone on the team.

There is no education like adversity." However, to gain this education you must be tough enough to overcome adversity rather than allowing adversity to overcome you.

Even at 94, I want to be the best I can be, and hard work is the only way to make this happen.

Long-Term Success Requires Short-Term Focus.

Each day my mother demonstrated great patience and the ability and eagerness to work very hard without complaint

Why do we dread adversity when we know that facing it is the only way to become stronger, smarter, better?

Don't whine. Don't complain. Don't make excuses.

You never stop trying.

winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never letting anyone down is the point. Play to win. Sure. But lose like a champion. Because it's not winning that counts. What counts is trying.

Patience is the ability to wait and calmly preserve. We all grow impatient, but some people have more trouble waiting than others do. We tend to forget that all good things take time.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

I believe that things are directed in some sort of way. I'm not exactly sure how. I also believe that things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.

Try your hardest in all ways and you are a success.

You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable. I did my best. That is all I could do.

If at first you don't succeed, just study the life of Abraham Lincoln.

And I'd be dead , but by God's grace Drive on, don't mean nothin' My children love me, but they don't understand And I got a woman who knows her man Drive on, don't mean nothin', drive on

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.

But if I had lived to be twenty-nine years old like I am, and with all my chances made no enemy, I'd feel myself a failure.

The situation is unendurable, and yet he endures.

Let the Church work out its own destiny, Miss McGee. Love it, be faithful, but don't let yourself be thrown off balance at every twist and turn

Her past seems a span of innocuous days. And her nights? Her most dramatic recurring dream in recent nights was one in which she had difficulty opening a jar of peanut butter.