Quotes About Perseverance

I've been around so long and no matter if I've done good things or bad things, or my personal life has been good or bad, the fans have always stuck with me.

Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.

The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there for the rest of your life.

As I look back on my life, I see it as one long obstacle course with myself as the main obstacle.

There are also times in life when a person has to rush off in pursuit of hopefulness.

I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death.

Pause and remember - Everyone gets discouraged and feels lost at times. Don't worry - life will get better. A new way is being made for you. Keep moving forward even if it's just baby steps.

The best motivating is self-motivating. The guy says, "I wish someone would come by and turn me on. "What if they don't show up? You've got to have a better plan for your life."

Freely the subject makes himself what he is, never in this life is the making finished, always it is in process, always it is a precarious achievement that can slip and fall and shatter.

I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up.

Life is good, after all...and that's what stays with me, even now, even when I'm about to be packed off to Poland.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

If you think life is a smooth sea, you will soon be awakened from this sweet dream by the slap of a bitter wave!

Problems are a major part of life. Don't whine about why you always have problems…get on with the solving. Take it from someone who has been there–the solving gets easier as you go along.

Of course, it's always bad to lose, of course it's always a hardship when you lose to yesterday's miners or yesterday's tractor drivers. But life is life. It'll surely go on.

I have all my life fought against prejudice, having been subjected to it myself.

When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. But when life hands you hurricanes, you go surfing.

Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.

My life owes me. Like an overdose, I'm slowly Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me

It's never too late to reach for happiness and no matter what life has done to you, it's never too late to find it.

I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.

Life's short, you know? Especially as an athlete. Your career is very short, and you use the opportunities that you have because you're not going to have them again.

The truth is, I've been the Hulk my whole life.

God, though this life is but a wraith, Although we know not what we use, Although we grope with little faith, Give me the heart to fight and lose.