Quotes About Perseverance

The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God.

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's not going to be satisfying.

The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.

Second place is just the first place loser.

Pursue your goals even in the face of difficulties, and convert adversities into opportunities.

Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

I do believe I am special. My special gift is my vision, my commitment, and my willingness to do whatever it takes.

Like a bird with broken wing that has traveled through wind for years . . . I sleep and my heart stays awake . . .

Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming.

In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

Carry on, carry on, what don't kill us makes us strong.

When it can't be done, do it. If you don't do it, it doesn't exist.

Hope begins in the dark.

When the going gets tough that should be your inspirational reason to drive on.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

You must climb above yourself-up and beyond, until you have even your stars under you.

Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.