166 Quotes About Perserverance

So the criminals win, that's what you're saying? For now they do. But it's a long game, Jamison. And I always play for the long game.

No one accomplishes anything if they decide before they begin that the task is too difficult. I'd rather attempt the impossible and fail than consign myself to failure before even making the attempt.

There was an art to living, and sometimes it required the inexorable, relentless resolve just to keep plowing forward, one step at a time, no matter what the hell it was you were doing.

Just imagine what would have happened if Michael Jordan quit after getting cut from his High School Basketball team?

If you didn’t like the weather, you didn’t rush into the storm—you waited until it changed. You found a way to keep from getting wet.

You will never know what you are made of until you have to made of something.

Time is a Trained Healer.

Rejection is a challenge. Silence is a test. Passion is tempered with wisdom. Solitude, is at most times, the path of a writer. If you can keep writing through all this, you've gained a completed book.

She drove down from North Carolina to see me, and reminded me of scriptural lessons that tragedies and disappointments should be a source of increased patience, strength, wisdom, and a commitment to our Christian life. I rejected her premises at first, but Ruth finally convinced me to relegate my political and business ambitions to a secondary position of importance for a while and to assume some challenging religious commitments.