#perseverance

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

"When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself."

"Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection."

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."

"Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace."

"It will get easier each time, I think. I hope. I just have to keep trying."

"No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday!"

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."

"First, I thought, almost despairing,This must crush my spirit now;Yet I bore it, and am bearing-Only do not ask me how."

"A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew."

"Never let go of a good thing without a fight. Especially if that good thing is a pair of boxing gloves."

"Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence."

"Life keeps throwing me curve balls and I don't even own a bat. At least my dodging skills are improving."

"You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain."

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

"Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind."

"Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong."

"Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired."

"I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard."

"One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing the answer 'no' time and time again, so he turns to and cultivates, monopolizes in his one talent which others cannot possibly subdue. Then, beyond the crowds of criticism and rejection, the right people recognize his talent - among them he finds his stage."