Quotes About Perseverance

Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer.

Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

Every man needs his Siren to check his courage and strength when he hears her song in his travels through the unknown.

Possible is more a matter of attitude, a matter of decision, to choose among the impossible possibilities, when one sound opportunity becomes a possible solution.

There are no winners in real games.

To jump over centuries in one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, you'll be way too late.

We will go far away, to nowhere, to conquer, to fertilize until we become tired. Then we will stop and there will be our home.

When all is lost, there is still a memory.

You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.

Sometimes one just had to forge on and let the chips fall where they may. After all, we were the ones in the trenches, investing our will, hearts, sweat, and money while the critics spent nothing but words.

I can't stop for grief, which is surely why I am irritated.

It's not the load you carry but how you carry it.

And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.

My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.'

And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

Where I am today... I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to.

My beloved daughter, Oryanna Elizabeth Davis (Elizabeth is my mother's name) was born on November 11, 2001 while I was serving yet another sentence of three and a half years in federal prison for something I did not do and could not have done, even if I had wanted to. And the judge, prosecutor, my probation officer, and the arresting Secret Service officers all knew it.

Raising children is an uncertain thing success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.

Grappling with fate is like meeting an expert wrestler: to escape, you have to accept the fall when you are thrown. The only thing that counts is whether you get back up.

One thing is certain: the lesson of Bobby Sands's determination comes through. One image returns over and over again: a naked man locked up twenty-four hours in a cell, without even the most rudimentary comforts or reading materials. He turns to his cellmate and chastises him for sleeping all day. "It's a waste of your opportunities, isn't it?

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.