“Showing up is not enough and overrated; commitment and perseverance are essential.”

“Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment.”

“I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance.”

“Our job is not to figure out the 'how'. The 'how' will show up out of the commitment and believe in the 'what”

“The secret to perseverance is a simple one: have a bigger commitment to getting the job done than to attempting to control your inner feelings and sensations.”

“I'm not sure there can be loving without commitment, although commitment takes all kinds and forms, and there can be commitment for the moment as well as commitment for all time. The kind that is essential for loving marriages-- and love affairs, as well-- is a commitment to preserving the essential quality of your partner's soul, adding to them rather than taking away.”

“Our most important asset and our greatest wealth is strength of mind, intention and will, perseverance, determination and commitment to what we seek and to what we want to achieve.”

“What if we promoted, like, Adidas shoes?” Percy wondered. “Would that make Nike mad enough to show up?”

“Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady”

“And if there is one thing that he and this year’s anniversary should teach us, if there’s one lesson I hope that Malia and Sasha and young people everywhere learn from this day, it’s that with enough effort, and enough empathy, and enough perseverance, and enough courage, people who love their country can change it.”