Quotes About Perseverance

I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one.

Almost everything we'll ever do in life that is really powerful, that really produces a result in our lives, that quantum-leaps us to a new level... requires us to do something uncomfortable.

You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.

Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.

To finish will leave you feeling like a champion and positively change your life.

Work hard for what you want in life.

I've changed a lot but I'm still Smitty. Hopefully I'm more mature and I'm a little wiser, and I plan on by the grace of God finishing well, and I'm more passionate than I ever have been in my life.

With this project ["This Is Mike Stud"] in general, I tried to put my life on record. All of these things I'm going through right now, I used to dream about and didn't think could ever happen to me.

I encourage everyone to know that God has a plan for their life and that God never makes a mistake even though it seems like He is not listening or paying attention sometimes.

Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was never going to get any better.

When life makes us face difficult situations-such as a personal loss-we have to understand that eternity is taking one more step.

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.

Just keep going - no feeling is final.

Usually life's greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.

That's the life really isn't it? You write. You record. You play. And it never grows old.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

If you're hard on yourself, life will be easy on you.

As long as there is life there is hope.

No one survives life.

I believe that rewards in life are deserved. Every reward is the fruit of discipline, of dedication and of sacrifices. And of stubbornness.

Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me, but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.

I've always been seen as the underdog in everything I've ever done in my life, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. The lessons have just made me stronger.