Quotes About Persistence

There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones.

I have to pick myself up every day and say, 'The show must go on,' meaning life as I know it must go on, whatever the obstacle is, I know I can handle it, and I can get through it.

I always tell the kids, You know what's great about going the extra mile? There's very little traffic.

A journey may be long or short, but it must start at the very spot one finds oneself.

Get on in life because life will get on without you if you don't keep up.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

Many times you will fail. That is the nature of the world, and the truth of life. But when you find your horse again, will go back or will you go forward?

We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.

My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in first place. I hope that inspired people to never give up.

You just got ta believe, i have never been a quitter in my life or in my career.

Why should it be easy to do something that, if done well, two or three times, will make your family rich for life?

Practice in life whatever you pray for and God will give it to you more abundantly.

Blues ain't football. You don't have to retire at 30. You can grow and play all your life.

All my life I've swam in the loo butterfly style.

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

There's no way you can look into the game of life and determine whether or not you'll get that big break tomorrow or whether it will take another week, month, year or even longer. But it will come!

Doors will slam in your face. You must pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and knock again; it's the only way to achieve your goals in life.

Someone once asked me what I want on my epitaph when I pass away. Just the words 'I tried.' That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars.

Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.

Each moment spent searching is also a moment spent finding.

When there is no turning back, then we should concern ourselves only with the best way of going forward.

Perfection in any endeavor is an aiming point. Let the desire for it push you, but don't let the absence of it stop you.