The U.S. Olympic spirit award is an award that is given to an athlete who embodies the Olympic spirit in more ways than just on the playing field, in showing incredible perseverance, in overcoming obstacles, and what we wanted to do is have everybody can vote on-line. (Quote by - Brian Boitano)

The important thing in life is to have great aim and to possess the aptitude and the perseverance to attain it. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

Persistence and determinationalone are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world, all rests on perseverance. (Quote by - Johann von Goethe)

Without sweat and toil no work is made perfect. (Quote by - Latin Proverb)

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins- not through strength but by perseverance. (Quote by - H. Jackson Brown)

The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling. (Quote by - Plutarch)

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire. (Quote by - William Godwin)

My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker. (Quote by - Robert Wise)

The characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

For thine own purpose, thou hast sent The strife and the discouragement! (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you. (Quote by - George Cukor)

I s a funny thing that when a man has t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married. (Quote by - Robert Frost)

The fall of dropping water wears away the stone. (Quote by - Lucretius)

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning. (Quote by - Richard Petty)

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. (Quote by - John Quincy Adams)

We shall escape the uphill by never turning back. (Quote by - Christina G. Rossetti)

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. (Quote by - Euripides)

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)

Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)