Quotes About Perseverance

Before my diagnosis with leukemia, two years ago at the age of 22, I'd always excelled at making resolutions. But I was never as good at keeping them.

Even amid the shock of my diagnosis, I held onto the hope that I'd be able to make the most of my down time by catching up on reading or watching all those Criterion Collection movies I'd always meant to watch.

It was hard to do 'Vikings.' It was hard to do 'Copper.' Part of that was, like, there's dialect and other things.

You can find a diamond in the rough a lot of times.

I'm like coal under pressure. I turn into a diamond.

There's always so much stuff to do. I work best when my diary just says 'MNEK, MNEK, MNEK.'

The colour of my skin determines what opportunities I have; the colour of my skin says there's only room for one or two of us to be accepted in a certain job; the colour of my skin has dictated everything I've done in my whole life.

You obviously want the results but you must do your job in every at-bat and deal with what every situation dictates.

I did about 50 pull-ups and 1,000 crunches a day. Crazy.

No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.

I think you're working and learning until you die.

All enchantments die; only cowards die with them.

Slipknot will never die. As long as we're together, it just won't. When it's time for us to end, we'll know when it's time.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

I do or die, but I never cancel out.

I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.

I'm going to beat this cancer or die trying.

I don't think comedy will ever die.

I never think about retiring - because you retire, you die.

I had a choice whether to live or die, and I chose to live.

I want to make music until I die.

My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.

My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.