Quotes About Perseverance

One night you delete all your suicide notes from your computer. If things go bad again, it's not like you can't write a new one.

Most of an award-show host's job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it's the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel's 'Hero Dog Awards.'

It was bewildering and humbling to keep discovering how many brave things people can fail to talk themselves out of doing.

What doesn't kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn't kill you makes you incredibly annoying

This is what they call "hitting rock bottom," and they call it that because it rocks.

Whatever doesn't kill you makes you incredibly annoying.

The only heroic act one can fucking well pull out of the bag in a situation like that is to get on with life and derive some joy from the very simple pleasure of remaining alive, despite every attempt being made to kill you.

I asked for a pony. And year after year I'm disappointed.

When life gives you lemons. . . You might as well shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because you sure as hell aren't ever going to see any lemonade.

Look at the ex-demon with his big boy pants on now.

There are a lot of truths in this world. When it rains it pours. It's always darkest before the dawn. He who smelt it dealt it.

Everyone has something in their life, in their world, that can break them.

You can't choose, who you are. No matter how you struggle, some things will never change. And maybe they schouldn't.

Get a grip, change your shorts, and move on to the task at hand.

If I hold myself accountable, no obstacle is insurmountable.

If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.

If you do everything, you'll win

if one characteristic of Lyndon Johnson was a boundless ambition, another was a willingness, on behalf of that ambition, to make efforts that were also without bounds.

And he worked himself, worked himself. He had made up his mind to be President, and he was demonic in his drive.

This day I looked forward to as one to help us out, worked every possible

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