Quotes About Persistence

If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

Riley B is a permanent pain in my a** in the game of life

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with.

Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any better, is one of the best financial and life skills you can master.

You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.

... Change doesn't happen overnight-it's molded by people who don't give up

Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.

Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race

You know, life is long. My shooting career is long.

Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.

Prayer pushes us through life's slumps, propels us over the humps and pulls us out of the dumps. Prayer is the oomph we need to get the answers we seek.

No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin to grasp the meaning of life.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.

Was that life? Well then, once more!

Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.

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A tree didn't yield to his strength of will or daring, but only to the continual cutting of his ax.

Always keep this point in mind: the word "delay" means what it says: late. Delayed isn't never, no matter how much it may feel like that at age fifteen or even twenty-five.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. —PABLO PICASSO

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.