Quotes About Perseverance

Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.

The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.

Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.

I think the time is coming for struggle and uncertainty. It comes into every serious and beautiful life. I knew all along that it had to come.

Never settle for the crumbs of life.

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

All my life I have been intensely repelled by the idea of 'making an effort'. I hate this idea today as much as I did as a child. I don't know why I hate it so much; I just do.

Joe Torre, who switched to first base because he didn't want to go through life as Chicken Catcher Torre. Never got a dinner!

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith.

I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.

Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

Life isn't fair. It's true, and you still have to deal with it. Whining about it rarely levels the playing field, but learning to rise above it is the ultimate reward.

If we wish to follow Christ closely, we cannot choose an easy, quiet life. It will be a demanding life, but full of joy.

There is much meaning in the word endure. For example, when dealing with unstable human feelings and uneven pathways in life, without endurance to hold you up, you may fall into a pit in the brush.

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.

Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.

Life is like a cup of tea, the sugar is all at the bottom!

I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.

Life is a big sea full of many fish. I let down my nets and pulled. I'm still pulling.