Let me tell you the secret that had led me to my goal; my strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

Football is like life—it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

For great and low there's but one test: 'Tis that each man do his best.

If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.