Quotes About Perseverance

Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.

Their continued presence here, trapped in Chambers, with gunmen firing around them, demonstrated to him that there was no ultimate being. It was all in the roll of the dice.

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.

Being a color in Texas is to wake stressed from being.

Satan wants you for a storm cloud, baby.

The Bible says that man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. Well, trouble followed me like sharks trailing a slave ship. Even when I tried to get away it was there swirling in a vortex around me.

I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.

And dinnae be afraid to fail. The only way to learn anything in life is to try and fail, then continue trying until ye succeed.

If there was one truth that I'd learned from all my reading, it was this: Happy endings do not apply to everyone. Someone is always left out of that final, jubilant scene. This time, that someone was me.

You can't get past pain without going through it,

It's like getting the best Christmas gift ever, but Santa decided to kick the crap out of you before you unwrapped it.

There is a ladder.The ladder is always therehanging innocentlyclose to the side of the schooner.

I know you are reading this poem in a room where too much has happened for you to bear where the bedclothes lie in stagnant coils on the bed and the open valise speaks of flight but you cannot leave yet.

For every bandaged wound I'll scrape another   open

Well, she's long about her coming, who must be more merciless to herself than history. Her mind full to the wind, I see her plunge breasted and glancing through the currents, taking the light upon her at least as beautiful as any boy or helicopter, poised, still coming, her fine blades making the air wince but her cargo no promise then: delivered palpable ours.

You ask me how I'm going to live the rest of my life Well, nothing is predictable with pain Did the old poets write of this? —in its odd spaces, free, many have sung and battled— But I'm already living the rest of my life not under conditions of my choosing wired into pain rider on the slow train

You just have to have heart, passion, determination and self-belief.

I guess passion keeps me going.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

Hustle like you broke and keep that passion.

Nothing can stop anyone who has a love and passion about their work.

I will box with passion and devotion.

Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.

The passion I had for being a goalkeeper made me follow the career of Rogerio Ceni.