Quotes About Perseverance

Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back on the ground, and maybe you'll live to tell the story.

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!

It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.

As you ramble on through life, brother, whatever be your goal: keep you eyes upon the donut, and not upon the hole.

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.

Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.

And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you all through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed, Sharing-oh, worst of all things!-the same head?- And, when I feed myself, feeding you too?

You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

Just follow me and run like your life depends on it. Because it does.

When things go wrong, don't go with them.

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.

Wherever I am when you feel sick at heart and weary of life, or when you stumble and fall and don't know if you can get up again, think of me. I will be watching and smiling and cheering you on.

It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.

You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.

No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

I do this 'Walker shake.' You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up.

You should not have idle hands, you should always be working. All your life.

Nothing in this life worth achieving is easy, nor is it impossible.

In golf, as in life, you get out of it what you put into it.

Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does.

There are two fatal errors that keep great projects from coming to life: 1. Not finishing 2. Not starting.