Quotes About Perseverance

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end.

When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just move forward.

I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard

to fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs.

When you spend seven years of your life working on something that youre really passionate about, and other people end up loving it, too, that just makes all of the work worthwhile.

The surest sign that you're working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don't complain very much about doing what it takes.

There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option."

If you can look up, you can get up.

To reach a port, we must sail - sail, not tie at anchor - sail, not drift.

Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life

I'm not running away from my responsibilities. I'm running to them. There's nothing negative about running away to save my life.

I struggle for what I believe in. Life is short, it's impossible to repeat something; you have to take advantage of things when you can reach them.

Sometimes your worst hits in life wind up being your best advantage. If only you could believe that when you're getting hit.

I'm tired of being Scarlett O'Hara. In my next life I'm going to come back as Melanie Wilkes, fragile and helpless.

I'm just like this. I have no talent for choosing my battles. Life seems, strangely, like a battle to me. The whole thing.

I realize that you have to show up for your life.

I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.

I've dealt with many crises in my life, but few will ever happen.