Quotes About Perseverance

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Life is not fair; get used to it.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

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

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake up and live!

I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.