Quotes About Perseverance

I'm a human, we're going to go through hard times and hard periods of our life, it's not going to be an easy ride all the time. That's what we forget. On social media, it seems that way that living are living these idyllic lives and it's not. There's going to be bumps in the road, that's life.

Many times, periods of struggle are more blessed times.

I think Im addicted to periods of doubt and low confidence. I think you should worry if you dont have them because then youre not trying hard enough.

One of the main reasons I started writing these one-man shows was that this really evil casting director once said to me, 'you're peripheral and you'll always be peripheral. You'll come in with the zingers and have very little to do, so just accept that and take the money.'

There are a lot of peripheral things that you have to deal with in this league, and I dealt with a lot of them when I came in. It's everything from being on your own to facing the media.

The thing you don't dream about as a kid is all the peripheral stuff that comes with success.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

I have heard the screams of the people. I have heard and felt your desperation. Haiti will not perish. Haiti must not perish.

In 1957, I decided: write or perish.

My friends were dropping like flies, and the government wasn't doing anything. You don't watch an entire generation take water hoses and dogs on the front line during the '60s or watch another generation perish from AIDS and then get to drive around in big cars and do nothing.

The rock n' roll lifestyle did have its perks, but it wasn't all limos and parties in the early days.

Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

I've got cut half in two, once, and blowed up a time or two, but nothing permanent.

I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.

I've had hundreds and hundreds of concussions, but I don't think that I have any permanent damage. A lot of my peers do.

My dad was a roofer when I was young. I believe he owned his own roofing company in Florida. And then he fell through a roof, broke his back. Permanently. I mean, he's not paralyzed or anything, but he's had to deal with pain for all of his life since then.

My back is permanently messed up.

When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

I can't permit myself to do things halfway; I never was like that.

The thing I have to do as a writer, and that God permits me to do, is that I have to be willing to fail.

I live in a perpetual state of fear.

Men of my father's generation were perpetual hustlers, always on the make and always on the move.

Getting help for my issues was one of the hardest things I've ever done, because when I get dangerously sad or manic, those feelings seek to perpetuate themselves.