Quotes About Perseverance

People have doubted me and criticized me my whole life, and that's why I'm the way I am.

Everyone is dealing with something. This is life; this is not just a piece of cake. You expect that when your teammates are doing their jobs, so you got to compartmentalize and do your job.

A writer is like a bag lady going through life with a sack and a pointed stick collecting stuff.

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

You have to be positive, and I'm not just talking about athletics, this also applies to life.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

Quit planning your dream and start living it.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.

Life will drag us kicking and screaming to our destiny if we try to escape it.

This is not a full circle. It's life carrying on. It's the next breath we all take. It's the choice we make to get on with it.

I want to run for eternal glory and track is great, but it's not what life is all about.

I am a firm believer that every few years one needs to shake one's life through a sieve, like a miner in the Yukon. The gold nuggets remain. The rest falls through like the soft earth it is.

I cannot say to be glad or not glad to be on Everest. It is my life. I have opportunity to be here, so I am here.

Being true to our beliefs—even when doing so isn't popular, easy, or fun—keeps us safely on the path that leads to eternal life with our Heavenly Father.

With comics, you always talk about a big break, but there are a lot of big breaks in your life and not one of them makes a big difference.

If you've ever really been poor, you remain poor at heart all your life.

Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases