Quotes about Perseverance

The difference between where you are and where God wants you to be is equal to the pain you're willing to endure.

It is not true to say that God wants to teach us something in our trials. Through every cloud He brings our way, He wants us to unlearn something.

Details matter, it's worth waiting to get it right.

Quarter-finals is good at a Grand Slam, but I think we want to go farther.

When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

I was never the person who came up with a boom somehow. I worked slowly and consistently, making my way up the rankings, so there wasn't one special moment.

In a season, you're going to go through slumps.

That's not the way I think, 'I'm the smallest guy on the field, I have to go out there and do this and do that.' I just go out there and play.

There are plenty of smart people who get nowhere.

Joseph Smith was true to his calling and fulfilled his duty even in the face of severe persecution and great personal sacrifice.

There are so many people who would like to see me not make it in Nashville. But that's good motivation.