Quotes About Persistence

Isn't (life) all about trying?

I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied.

Nothing of great value in this life comes easily.

Life is that which must overcome itself again and again

Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers that there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.

Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

Stay the course and see the beauty of life unfold for you.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

On one of those rare occasions when Bach appraised his own life's work, he remarked: I worked hard.

To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

Nothing in life that's worth anything is easy.

People have always been telling me what I can't do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That's been one of my driving forces all my life.

The key to life is to set goals and go after those goals, don't hold anything back.

Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.

Keep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest plan you can think of and spend the rest of your life carrying it out.

Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has shown me the causeway to it.

We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.

For Harmony. A chance at life. To fight on other days.

The keys to life are running and reading.

Push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life.

My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive and to create the opportunities myself.