Quotes about Perseverance

You need be defeated only if you are willing to be.

Courage can be many things, but the secret of courage is simply and honestly to admit your feelings of failure. And then with God's help go on and do your job in spite of them.

So always picture "success" no matter how badly things seem to be going at the moment.

Never think of yourself as failing; never doubt the reality of the mental image. That is most dangerous, for the mind always tries to complete what it pictures.

It's always too early to quit

mind can conceive and believe, and your heart desire, you can achieve.

It's always too soon to quit!

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles; they toughen and make strong.

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.

complete state of retreating

Once he began to act as if he could not fail, he did not fail.

There was Glenn Cunningham, whose legs were so badly burned as a child that he was told he would not walk again. But he became one of the fastest Olympic milers in history. Glenn Cunningham told me that faith and positive thinking are 85 per cent of an athlete's success;