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Quotes About Perseverance

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
~ Harry Emerson Fosdick
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion.
~ Harry Houdini
I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training. To get irritated is to lose our way in life.
~ Haruki Murakami
I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.
~ Haruki Murakami
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
~ Henry David Thoreau
In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
In life it is training rather than birth which counts.
~ Ihara Saikaku
Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.
~ J. G. Holland
We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.
~ J. K. Rowling
Those who are the happiest are not neccessarily those for whom life has been easiest.
~ James Dobson
Even if we fail, we are still gaining life experience. The worst thing that could happen is that we come out smarter and more prepared for our next challenge.
~ Jane Powell
The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.
~ Janis Ian
Life bites like a dog.
~ Janusz Korczak
I've been showing up late and dirty all my life.
~ Jase Robertson
I don't do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do.
~ Jeremy Renner
Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.
~ Jim Valvano
Life is very tough. If you don't laugh, it's tough.
~ Joan Rivers
The keys to life are running and reading.
~ Will Smith
I wasnt born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.
~ Yohan Blake
Push on, friend. You're just one exciting step from the banquet hall of life.
~ Zig Ziglar
Life is overwhelming. Life is not easy. Life is tough and you need something that really works and helps you actually, not promises to help you, then fail.
~ John Travolta
People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.
~ August Strindberg