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

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.

I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, “What’s your secret?” and I will tell them, “I just get up again when I fall down.

We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to a process.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

I did not seek greatness. I only sought to fulfill my duties.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in the state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Against all odds and despite all the obstacles, we are going to make it.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day; it helps. Then, when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

Money grows on the tree of persistence.

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence—natural ability notwithstanding.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

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.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

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

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness for the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity: the road is smooth, and it lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it, and rough at first. But when you come to the top, then it is easy, even though it is hard.