Quotes about Perseverance

My greatest asset now is my focus.

I'm not the biggest guy.

In the gym, you get out what you put in. There's no room for excuses, for taking shortcuts or giving half effort.

I don't want anything handed to me, I want to work for everything I have... that's the way I've done everything in my life.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no 'brief candle' to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

It takes six years to learn to live together, and get over the most furious fits of wishing you hadn't married him, and hating him, but after that he becomes a habit and a property and you stop bothering about it.

Tapferkeit wird dadurch nicht schlechter, dass sie ein wenig schwerfällt.

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.

While the heart beats, bruise it--it is your only opportunity