Quotes About Perseverance

I guess we go through multiple rough patches in all of our relationships.

Everyone had their own machete. Because that's how you cut grass in Africa. There were no lawn mowers. We had to tend our own patches. I still feel as if I have got the blisters.

If there is one thing you can count on in your life, it's that your path will not always be easy.

One door shuts, and another one opens, and you just kind of follow that path. My path has been a little curvy, but it is what it is. It's all good.

No matter what happens to us in life, we must get back on our feet and continue on the path.

The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.

You won't ever get clarity in life. You have to overcome the hazy path yourself.

I think the biggest challenge is to continue on the same path. I think it's easy to become complacent from the success you've had.

Everybody has a different path to making it in this league. I was fortunate to get an opportunity here in Brooklyn.

I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional baseball player, but I got injured in college. When I decided to move out to L.A. to try acting, nobody was betting on me, not even my family. But it's always been that way for me; nothing has come easy.

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.

I could have gone down a very different path, but my parents would not let me give up football.

With 20 top-10 finishes, I feel we're on the right path.

The thing that 'Annie' means to me is that it is good to always be strong, and if you have a goal, go for it, and if there is something in your way, just go around and find your path again, and go for your goal.

Boxing is one of the hardest jobs in the world, so when I found my career path, what I'd learnt in the boxing gym meant I was head and shoulders above everybody else.

If you can't say where you're going, you're not going to get there. And I've known all along where I'm going, and sometimes the road takes a few curves that you didn't see, but you've got to stay the path.

An inventor's path is chorused with groans, riddled with fist-banging and punctuated by head scratches.

Just go out there and do it. It's not the easiest path.

Being idealistic really helps you overcome some of the many obstacles put in your path.

When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.

I don't think I'd change the path that's got me where I am today.

I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.

For whatever reason, I decided: 'I'm 18, I'm a man, I'm going to grow a moustache' - and it was pathetic for years - it was awful.

While I enjoy it, I will continue to go onstage. While I contribute something, fine. I don't want to be dragging my feet. I don't want to become pathetic, but I think I will be lucid enough. I'll know when to stop.