Quotes About Perseverance

If thou wouldst conquer thy weakness, thou must never gratify it.

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

At some point, if you're changing a really deep-seated behavior, you're going to have a moment of weakness.

Showing weakness and showing fear and letting people in was a huge part of my comeback.

My dad worked for Nestle for 26 years and ended up being the mayor of our hometown. One of the lessons I learned from him was to never mistake kindness for weakness.

I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

Every day, we have to strive to be better people. Some days we give in to weakness, and sometimes we give in to strength.

The kind of music I'm dealing with is more a long-term music. Sometimes a little discourage runs along on your thought, but I am here to push it back. Discourage is a sign of weakness, and I don't like to be weak.

I was constantly being told I shouldn't talk so much about how I was feeling. They seemed to think I was giving too much away to my competitors. Showing signs of weakness. But I've always thought that was rubbish.

It would surprise you how many government and business leaders with dyslexia. Some people view it as a weakness, and maybe it is. What dyslexia forces you to do, you don't go A, B, C, D, E... to Z. I can go A, B... Z with speed.

People with disabilities can grow up thinking they have a weakness because they are told,You will never do this properly; you will never walk properly or talk properly.' That's all they hear. But you have to look past that.

Sometimes, my weakness is where the strength really is, and it leads me to depend in the areas where I really should.

Growing up, I'd always been told that my biggest weakness was my body and how that was probably going to hold me back from accomplishing my dreams.

I have a lot of weakness in my core, so that's definitely something I'm improving on.

When I was a kid in year one and year two, I had troubles with reading and writing, and my mum took me to St. Vinnies and we bought this big box of second-hand books, and she worked with me to turn that weakness around, you know.

Like I always say, whatever is my weakness, I try to work on it and I try to get better at it.

With Masvidal, I dropped him and it's the first time I'd ever dropped anyone in my life. I kind of started to turn the corner after that, and it was just a realization that if my hands were a weakness, it was only because I didn't believe in them. I had the talent to do it.

I knew the day I left Newport that if I came back, I'd failed. The fear of losing the game, of having to go home and tell my family, 'I tried but it didn't work out,' has haunted me. It is still there, and it is a strength and a weakness.

But when you embrace your weakness, that's when you become strong.

Everybody has a weakness. I don't want to say mine. Everybody must work on something, but I know my stuff and what I must work on.

Baseball is a game based on adversity. It's a game that's going to test you repeatedly. It's going to find your weaknesses and vulnerabilities and force you to adjust. That adversity, in the big picture, is a really good thing because it shows you where your weaknesses are. It gives you the opportunity to improve.

It's all about the hard work, knowing your strengths and weaknesses. You work on what you know you can do best. I have speed.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.