Quotes about Perseverance

I think long-term, not short-term.

Being strong, showing that you will see things through no matter what comes your way, that's what matters most to me.

I train a lot. After training sessions, I like to stay with some balls and some goalkeepers - they help me a lot, too.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

I have always wanted to write a novel, and I tried many times but could never find the right story. One day, I was walking on the beach, and the idea for 'Groundswell' hit me. I went into the house and started writing and never stopped.

I want to win, I've still got the fire in the belly to win, it's just the old utensils are not working as good as they used to.

The challenge of mindfulness is to work with the very circumstances that you find yourself in - no matter how unpleasant, how discouraging, how limited, how unending and stuck they may appear to be - and to make sure that you have done everything in your power to use their energies to transform yourself before you decide to cut your losses and move on.

seen or unseen, in sun or clouds, broiling or frigid, it just sits, being itself. At times visited by violent storms, buffeted by snow and rain and winds of unthinkable magnitude, through it all the mountain sits.

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.

There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can't be done. In Your strength, I find my own.

Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.

Here in the sub-Sahara, it seemed that the weaker people were, the harder they had to lean on God - and the harder they leaned on him, the greater their joy.