Francis de Sales Quotes

He helps me every day to do my exercises. Siegfried told me once, 'The one who is a hero is the one who can hang on just one minute longer.'

People throw in the towel because they don't know how to fight. You'd be surprised how much fight you have in you if you just do it.

It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life—that’s persistence.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it's what you do at that moment that determines who you are.

You can't lose confidence in yourself, or you've lost already. When you get knocked down, you've got to keep getting back up.

Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. Often, in the beginning, you will think that you are wasting time, but you must go on, be determined and persevere in it until death, despite all the difficulties.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.

The test of your character is what it takes to stop you.

Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.

Nothing can stop you until you choose to be stopped

Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence.

A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to.

Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.

Unfortunately, sometimes you can't have fun accomplishing your goals. Sometimes people don't have the determination, the will, the steadfastness, the tenacity, they give in under the slightest struggle.

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

Don't get discouraged: it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

When you're out of will power you call on stubbornness, that's the trick.

When you're ready to quit, you are closer than you think

A lot of things I've done in my life have taken incredible mental fortitude.

There's moments where things are harder than others, and there are obviously questions, but when it comes down to it, there is no quit in me.

Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation; losers, to give in the frustration; winners, to come through with determination.

Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.