Quotes About Perseverance

The reward of eternal life requires effort.

When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up.

Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.

Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.

Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties

Don't piss your life away with suicide...it's a bullshit way out.

Grind it out. Hanging on just one second longer than your competition makes you the winner.

Who would enjoy a life of no runs, no hits, no errors?

I don't think I've mastered anything. I'm still wrestling with the same frustrations, the same issues, the same problems as I always did. That's what life is like.

There are no successes and failures in life, only achievements - stepping stones.

Sometimes you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while.

A free ride is life's most difficult journey.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the telephone company and imagination saved my life.

I have to pick myself up every day and say, 'The show must go on,' meaning life as I know it must go on, whatever the obstacle is, I know I can handle it, and I can get through it.

I always tell the kids, You know what's great about going the extra mile? There's very little traffic.

Life is a bit hard sometimes, and sometimes you have to step up and fight fights that you never signed up for.

This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.

Get on in life because life will get on without you if you don't keep up.