Quotes about Perseverance

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

In track years... track is not like other sports. You do have track athletes that stay in this sport until, like, 35, 36, but I think when you get to 28, it's really difficult.

It's a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments. So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn't like competing, I made her finish the season.

It all started to come together when I realized that boxing was how I was going to succeed in life.

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.