Quotes About Perseverance

Sometimes, you gotta believe something crazy. Because all the other things you could believe hurt too much.

Leave me be! Leave me be!" she shouted; and with her stick, she beat at her dreams. She had passed the children without noticing them. And then Pidge was not afraid of her any longer. He realized that her anger was directed only against herself and her own thoughts.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but simply moving on with dignity despite that fear.

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

You'll be finished when it's done. And it's not done till it's done right.

She coached every day like it was the national championship game. Every practice was coached like that. It was never a letup. I can't ever remember a day where she was tired, ever. —MICKIE DEMOSS

There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.

I remember every player—every single one—who wore the Tennessee orange, a shade that our rivals hate, a bold, aggravating color that you can usually find on a roadside crew, "or in a correctional institution," as my friend Wendy Larry jokes. But to us the color is a flag of pride, because it identifies us as Lady Vols and therefore as women of an unmistakable type. Fighters. I remember how many of them fought for a better life for themselves. I just met them halfway.

Someday, I suppose I'll give up, and sit in the rocking chair. But I'll probably be rocking fast, because I don't know what I'll do without a job.

Quit? Quit? We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities, because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment. When you learn to keep fighting in the face of potential failure, it gives you a larger skill set to do what you want to do in

Confidence is what happens when you've done the hard work that entitles you to succeed.

I'm going to outwork you. Simple as that.

Our team is young, but on the rise. Holly's motto for them is "Same heart, same pride, same fight," which I love. The

Our team is young, but on the rise. Holly's motto for them is "Same heart, same pride, same fight," which I love. The kids, who include my last recruiting class, tell me they want to represent everything Tennessee has ever been about: hard work, defense, rebounding, and doing all the little things right.

Yes. It is. —June 23, 2012, at night driving from Henrietta back to Knoxville with the tape recorder off, thirteen months after diagnosis

We got a little waylaid along the way. The whole problem started about 10 years ago with management and legal battles, then still trying to make albums while I was doing all of that.

We can't win at home and we can't win on the road. My problem as general manager is I can't think of another place to play.

As he grew, what he lacked in formal education, he made up for through diligent, determined reading. The where, when, and how of reading mattered not to Abraham Lincoln, who said, "The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places ... Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other thing.

Very few people discover their talent while snoring in a hammock. The harder you work and the more you demand of yourself, the more talent and ability you will discover. Hard work reveals talent.

To live is to fight.