Quotes About Perseverance

If you are going to go through hell...I suggest you come back learning something.

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

I love my life and it takes every step to get to where you are, and if you are happy, then God bless the hard times it took you to get there. No life is without them, so what are yours, and what did you do with the lessons? That is the only way to live.

My lesson here was you do not give up. You hold yourself accountable. You stay grateful. You hold on tight to your friends.

I played eight years without really being hurt seriously and hadn't had to deal with that part of the game. So, to get hurt and to have to miss games, that part of it was very hard. And so when I came back and somebody else had my job and I couldn't get it back. You know that was hard.

I've been really fortunate, man, I got out of the game after 14 years and ... I certainly got hit plenty, but everything, so far, functions fairly well.

Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.

There are no such things as dead ends. Only people who find dead ends.

I like to think of myself as practicing Hopeful. I do my best, and I hope there's something out there that will make it all make sense. -Sharon, Super Powereds: Year 3

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

There is no shame in falling," Pernicar said, standing up. "There is only shame if you refuse to rise once again.

Take what makes you weak and turn it into something that makes you strong.

On war-torn land streams flow and mountains stand

Before you decide to kill yourself, attempt the impossible.

Commit yourself to bringing beauty and hope to the world. Ignore the negative and the naysayers; they are the yapping dogs outside the walls.

If the Super Bowl is the ultimate game, how come there is another one next year?

It was not that these men were cold-blooded or hard-hearted: death was something they had to take in their stride. Dwelling on it would probably drive a man mad

Even though I seem not human, a mute shelf of glucose, bottled blood, machinery to swell the lung and pump the heart—even so, do not put out my life. Let me still glow.

She had stayed home and worked hard and a posthumous recognition had eventually followed. Not that Buck hadn't worked hard, sure he did, but in the end the body won't hold up as a work of art.

Je n'ai pas eu le courage de me suicider. J'ai eu le courage de ne pas me suicider.

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

Man, if I made one million dollars I would come in at six in the morning, sweep the stands, wash the uniforms, clean out the office, manage the team and play the games.

In its early years, he gave three explanations as to why the company survived: "We didn't have any money, we didn't have any technology, and we didn't have a plan

The pioneers take the arrows, settlers take the land