Quotes about Perseverance

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

Nothing resists a human will that stakes its very existence upon the achievement of its purpose

The secret to success is constancy of purpose.

We receive by faith and we keep it by faith.

Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life.

I am a person of great faith and idealism and have been in too many situations too many times to become an eternal pessimist regarding politics.

I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.

I have always said from day dot if somebody comes in and they give me a chance to play and play regularly then they will get the best out of me.

When people go to rehab and come out, they go through a difficult period, but I never had that.

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

When you try to be a role model, not everybody can relate to some of your highs - awards, championships. But everybody can relate to the lows. Everybody's gotten fired from a job or gotten cut. People learn more about you in those lows than they do in the highs.

I think my story relates. When I started out, all I had was my passion and grit.