Quotes About Perseverance

In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.

Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.

I'd like my life back.

Every lion has a time in their life when a thorn has got to them at one point.

My life was a complete catatrophe. I was very, very sick from drugs and alcohol.

Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that.

For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.

Life's not real easy right now. But I guess I'd rather have it this way than not at all.

How remorseless life is!

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

I grew up such a fan. It was my life. Everything I did was hockey related and everything I have is because of hockey and the NHL.

No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it.

Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles.

...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else." -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Even a criminal has the right to a new life, but they made sure I did not have that. They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.

If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.

The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. Victory in life is decided by that last concentrated burst of energy filled with the resolve to win.

My life has been less like a light switch suddenly turning on, and more like a dimmer switch slowly turned up, over time, more in some moments than others.

Animators have to live life 24 times as long as we do - every 24 frames of a second.

I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong, to show them I could do things they didn't think I could do.

Life is pulled by goals and pushed by drive. Make sure you have both!

God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.