Quotes About Perseverance

Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.

Poverty doesn't make anyone an inferior being.

She limped, unaided around the house, like a bird with its wing broken. Tame, because it couldn't fly away. All her time was taken up with managing herself, working out new ways to do things. Being a different person in the world.

You are going to get strong! You are going to walk!" "Mama, please!" "You want to know why? They take the weak ones first." Everything was always about the war.

Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.

I had three children while doing a show, as demanding as 'Good Morning America ' so this is - you know, it's almost like I'm less daunted about motherhood, and parenting at this point in time. And I think I'm just much more fit and healthy than I was 20-years-ago.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Rather now than tomorrow, and tomorrow than the day after!

You have been with your counsel and I have been with mine. Believe me that the counsel of my Lord will be accomplished and will stand, and this counsel of yours will perish.

Listen. I wish I could tell you it gets better. But, it doesn't get better. You get better.

We wanted to do it, and we did it and we don't give a damn",

When I was born, my mother asked, 'Will she live?' The doctor said, "Only if you take your foot off her throat

I do a lot of lectures on survival. I always say you can't change what happened, so have a little wallow, feel very sorry for yourself, and then get up and move forward. You can't change what happened.

We are such idiots, We think everyone else has it all figured out. But we're all stumbling around in dark rooms bumping into furniture and stifling our cries so no one will know.

I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core.

Well, I am going on 83 now but not about to quit. There are too many things I know about where I want to see what happens. You, my dear, being one of them, and this new century starting. Do what you can to make it good. And remember, as we used to say, that life is like a pudding: it takes both the salt and the sugar to make a really good one.

Wojna. Toczy si? na ?wiecie nieprzerwanie. Tam, gdzie wybucha, pojawia si? tak?e nadzieja

Nie ma czegoÅ› takiego jak brak nadziei. Bóg mo?e wszystko.

A willingness to lose one's self in a story was the first step to learning compassion, to appreciating other cultures, to realizing what possibilities the world held for people who kept at life despite the odds.

Oh, Mama," I said. "What if I don't live that long?" My mother didn't hesitate one second. "By hook or by crook, you will. Having children only increases your grip on the world. It's like reading a thriller. You can't put it down because you have to know how the story turns out.

What ever was fair? What ever is? You put one foot in front of the other and you walk through all of it. And if you're lucky, like I am, on either side, you plant flowers.

The rumors of my impending death have been greatly exaggerated," she paraphrased Mark Twain now.

Chances are everything's already been said, but since no one is paying attention you have to start all over again.

Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push.