Quotes About Perseverance

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

Adversity is prosperity to those who possess a great attitude.

There are plenty of guys who played great golf, had great careers and only won a few majors.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

A man works for his own dreams but a great man works for their dreams.

You can have anything you want in life, you must be willing to conquer the challenge.

I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.

Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.

My parents have been married 50-some years, and I've never heard them fight. I got the chance to attend great universities and medical school.

I'm very hard on myself. Sometimes too hard on myself. When I lost in the Wimbledon finals, I was so sad, I cried. I had the runner-up trophy! It's still a great accomplishment, but I was so mad.

SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.

Many say they can't get God's guidance, when they really mean they wish He would show them an easier way.

Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're stalled, "standing still".

Gerald Boyd was a classic specimen of the self-made man. Born poor, he worked and studied his way up out of poverty under the guidance of his widowed grandmother.

Hearing God's voice is indispensable to moving through or around closed doors.

You believe the sun will reappear after a stormy day, so why is it so hard to believe, you'll experience happiness after every heartache.

Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

Happiness is an enemy. It weakens you. Suddenly, you have something to lose.

I believe in the sun, even when it rains.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

Fighting for happiness is the hardest thing you'll ever fight for, but it's the only thing worth fighting for.

No one can know what happiness is if you have not gone through the disappointmentOne can only savor the victory if he has felt the bitter defeat.

Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.