We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.
When you're a professional you come back no matter what happened the day before.
When I look at the kids training today ... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who...
Every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.
Saints are sinners who kept on going.
Gnaw your own bone gnaw at it bury it unearth it gnaw it still.
"Brave admiral say but one good word: What shall we do when hope is gone?" The words leapt like a leaping sword: "Sail on! sail on! and on!"
No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.
I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is why did other people stop?
Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
One thing we learned. To make a start and keep plugging. When I had fights at school the little while I went I just bowed my neck and kept swinging until something hit the dirt. Sometimes it was me...
If I don't get off the mat I'll lose the fight.
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
It's not worthy of human beings to give up.
I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
No one can bother the one who has not interfered in the slightest with anyone. If such a person were to go into a town of robbers, the robbers will welcome him with respect and offer him food. No matt...
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write and then I remember that it was always difficult and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time.