Perseverance Quotes

"If you’re hurt, lick your wound and get up again. If you’ve given it your absolute best, it’s time to move forward." "The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face." "A jug fills drop by drop." "Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes." "Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good." "Be a lamp for yourselves. Be your own refuge. Seek for no other. All things must pass. Strive on diligently. Don’t give up." "There are no pleasures in a fight, but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win." "To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If not, pretend you are." "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." "What keeps me going is goals." "The critics only made me work harder." "Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even." "Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill." "It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe." "I may have been the best fighter, but I was also the poorest. I had never been able to afford a first-class mouthpiece to protect my teeth. I had to wait until other fighters finished so I could borrow their headgear, or their trunk or bandages." "I know no fighter can survive the loss if he feels sorry for himself when he’s defeated." "Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it." "No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up." "I do everything to make the fight come out my way, but if I’m defeated I have to get up and come back again, no matter how humiliating the loss." "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong."