Quotes about Perseverance

Every day we choose not to commit suicide we are manifesting our fundamental conviction that life is worth it, despite all the pain we may experience.

I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.

After my accident, I never worried about how I looked.

Don't use all-or-nothing thinking. Take each day as its own day, and don't worry about it if you mess up one day. The most important thing you can do is just get back up on the horse.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

Diabetes taught me discipline.

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life.

The human spirit is so resilient, and failure teaches you so much.

All I can do is play as hard as I can play, make as many plays as I can make and try to help my team win football games.

I spent three weeks lamenting, ruminating and praying because football had been part of my life since age 6. Then I moved on. I'm glad I always had another clear plan. Several of my FSU teammates did not and do not. It's hard to leave a sport that is embedded in you.

Many are called to do great things, but they do not fulfill those callings because they do not give themselves to the little things.

You must do all that you do here with joy. The joy of The Lord is your strength, and you can only make it through this valley by His strength.