Quotes About Perseverance

You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.

If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life.

Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares!

My whole life I've been trying to prove people wrong. I ended up beating everything.

Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.

If something is worth doing you may as well go heart and soul and boot leather.

The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden.

Whatever happens in my life, whether I stand up or I fall down, whatever the case, I'm going to use it in my art. Why? Because I'm an artist and I have to.

I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody, though we remain sure nonetheless that we had to make the jump.

Yes, I have cancer and it might not go away, but I can still have a future because life goes on.

I'm a big believer in, no matter what you go through in life, as long as you can laugh your way through it, you're going to be okay.

The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.

When I lost my way, and When the road was too long, I was muttering to myself. Life is just that way.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.

My life has always been a series of challenges and I'm psychologically-prepared but this is the biggest challenge of my life.

Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?

I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

I realized, the older I get, the more difficult life becomes. It's not easier, it's more difficult.

A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.

I live a soldier's life when I'm working. That's how it feels to me, except I've got a slightly greater chance of survival.

I'm not going anywhere. You can print that wherever you want to. I'm here and I'm a Spur for life.

I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.