Quotes about Perseverance

At Norwich, I was injured, and then I went to Leicester, and I found myself on the bench. But I still used that to my advantage as an experience - I had to do that here at Spurs for a while, be on the bench and wait for my chance. It's definitely something that's helped me with my game.

Some people's developmental path has not equipped them to stand up and let go of something.

Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.

There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done.

From a mental standpoint, you can't play this game unless you mentally are clocked in and that's, 'I'm willing to do everything to my body, my mind to put myself so that I can win.'

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

I want every young man who sees me to know that I'm not that different from them. I wasn't born into wealth. I wasn't born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes - but I kept at it.

Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.

There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.

Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.