Quotes about Perseverance

People will try to pull you down, but you need to fight the negativity in your life. It's always good to stay positive and think positive.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.

Death at times seems like a dark tunnel to be traveled, and the future seems bleak.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

You have to turn the lemons life gives you into lemonade, and you have to take time to sit back and enjoy it.

Know, thou, that the lines that live are turned out of a furrowed brow.

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't take that away from him, because then you take it away from every other kid in America sitting out there in a school bus with a big dream.

Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can't let go of it.

To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to get me out of prison.

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.