Quotes About Perseverance

When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any journey could be sweet to the soul.

I'm going to keep rushing the ball until the whistle blows and it's the end of the game. That's how I'm going to keep playing.

I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.

You can only do what you can do in this world. If you start thinking of all the white noise out there, I think you'll go crazy.

Just because you're struggling with self-discipline doesn't mean you have to raise the white flag and declare your self-improvement efforts a complete failure. Instead, work to increase the chances that you'll stick to your healthier habits - even when you don't feel like it.

Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we, as black people, we're never going to be successful - not because of you white people but because of other black people. When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people.

My whole life, I've been hearing, 'He's good for a white boy'... My plan in boxing is just to eliminate stereotypes. I don't feel like just because the color of my skin that I can and can't do something.

Sometimes I feel that my job on earth is to put Julie White through horrible things, watch her writhe and then recover.

When you look at every studio in the '20s or '30s, from Louis B. Mayer to Jack Warner, you see people who started with one plan and quickly shifted gears to adapt to a changing world. One of my favorite stories is that Walt Disney mortgaged his house to make 'Snow White.' He saw there was a real opportunity to change the world.

I can remember standing in a W.P.A. line with a gunny sack, and I remember having to buy chocolate milk instead of white because it was one cent cheaper.

My siblings, along with my parents Chris and Kath, are the reason that I am successful. Whether I wanted to become an elementary school teacher, enter and win Alternative Miss Ireland, enroll to do a Ph.D., or visit the White House to speak about fashion and disability, they supported me.

I got Type 1 diabetes at 30. It hit me in 1982 when I was a White House Fellow in Washington. I had viral pneumonia. I lost 35 pounds in six weeks. And I couldn't see anything. Everything was blurry. I was always thirsty.

You know, people'd always ask 'Why is Jesse Jackson running for the White House?' They never seen the house I'm running from.

I guess there were things about the Obamas I discovered that I do think are universal to marriage. I found it very interesting in my reporting that their most difficult periods in the White House almost never seemed to coincide. When one was down, the other one was holding it together. In my experience, that's true of marriage generally.

It was impossible for Hillary Clinton to have chosen a path to the White House that bypassed the loathing, jeering derision and gendered stereotyping built on two centuries of male power. What was interesting was how hard she tried to do just that.

I figured out pretty quickly, as long as you stay employed and make pretty good money, you don't have to make that top top money for a couple, three years, like a lot of guys then disappear. You'll still do okay.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

It's a bummer sometimes but I always believe that great bands and great music always prevail.

For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.

I knew from day one, the truth would prevail, but I was so scared I didn't know what to do.

But I thought love would more than prevail.

The enemies of freedom will not prevail.

I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail.

I have way more bravery than common sense, but you always assume things are going to be so difficult, and then when you're actually faced with them, you prevail. It's human nature.