Quotes About Perseverance

Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time? One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult! It's what enables us to grow. Remember, earth is not heaven!

If you have felt hopeless, hold on! Wonderful changes are going to happen in your life as you begin to live it on purpose.

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. And that's it you know, you never know what's round the corner. But it's all good. "If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain." Do you know which "philosopher" said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits.

Mondays are fine. It's your life that sucks.

My greatest hero is Nelson Mandela. What a man. Incarcerated for 25 years, he was released in 1990 and he hasn't reoffended. I think he's going straight, which shows you prison does work.

You do your own thing and you see if you survive.

No one wants to see cool people doing brilliantly. I want to see the struggle. That's the fun bit.

If you can laugh in the face of adversity, you're bullet-proof.

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much.

I just started watching wrestling in 2008, and I've loved it ever since. I told my mom I wanted to become a wrestler.

As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience.

Okay, so let's run faster.

And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.

The person desirous of success and strength should perform good karma continuously.

To make it not be the last day, I'd search for every single possibility. (Translated)

It may just be an instant... a sudden flash of light! But it will burn so bright... so spectacular... and it will persevere so that it can shine for even one second longer! That is how we humans live!

The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do.

All I am saying is that sometimes you're doing quite a lot by not doing anything. You're not quitting. You just keep going. That's the pioneer spirit.

And why did I think that the notorious and often fatal obstacles that the pioneers faced—mountain passes strewn with lava rock, hellacious winds and dust storms, rattlesnakes, and descents so steep that the wagons could only be lowered by ropes—would miraculously vanish from the trail for me?

Fucked up is the universal condition of man. We were crossing to Oregon behind a cranky team of mules—the very definition, the apotheosis, the pinnacle, of fucked up. I woke in the morning to harness mules, fucked up, obsessed all day on making more miles, fucked up, and collapsed onto my squalid wagon matteess every night, fucked up. I was having a great time, enjoying the best summer of my life, fucked up. Fucked up is good.

Whenever you make an agreement with yourself, you have to stick to it.