Quotes about Perseverance

And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life—not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living. A sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.

Evil is more than the sum of individual misdeeds. Evil has a life of its own. It is not enough to stand aside from it. If it is not actively resisted, it sweeps all before it. Part of a Christian's calling is to resist evil, and in doing so, to endure to the end.

In my 20s, I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

At 26 or 27, I was fatter than anyone.

See failures as learning experiences, not character faults.

I feel like I fell short in Rio.

We are still fighters.

When the chips are down, you see who the real fighters are. That is the beauty of Manchester United.

Not every Christian finds it easy to believe.

As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.

When some people have a difficult job to do, they give up everything else until that job is finished. Others just give up.

I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that's part of football. That's like a firefighter knowing he is going to go into a fire at some point. You know you are going to be put in danger's way, and you accept that risk, and you do it.