Quotes About Perseverance

I hope that people will be inspired by Madam Walker's story. I hope that they will see her as a complex human being, and that they will want to dig more deeply, that they will want to know the details of her life.

I was trying to get an audition for 'Walker, Texas Ranger' and they wouldn't see me. And I was crestfallen, because I really needed money. And to be told you're not good enough to be seen by 'Walker, Texas Ranger' is a tough blow.

Raising George Walker was not easy.

I have vets like Antoine Walker, Greg Buckner, Mark Madsen, and Michael Doleac who keep me motivated to want to get better.

When walking through the 'valley of shadows,' remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life.

Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.

Some of us are turtles; we crawl and struggle along, and we haven't maybe figured it out by the time we're 30. But the turtles have to keep on walking.

I love walking on a treadmill, it's a great way to challenge yourself!

In order to survive, I created a certain type of aura about myself that I was the baddest chick walking down the street. Anytime somebody underestimates me, Thug Rose comes out.

I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.

Ever since I lost my limb and started walking with a prosthetic leg, I had been working only on my goal of conquering the 29,000 feet summit. Now that it has been achieved, my next goal is the Seven Summits.

I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.

I'm not perfect. As a Christian, you're not perfect, you know, but you're walking every day and trying to stay connected.

I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out.

Walking the runway with Alexander McQueen, I really had to dig deep. You're with Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. I was the first person out on the runway, but I thought, 'I have done the Olympics, I can do this.'

I know those challenges that come up from time to time in life are our little learning tools, our little steppingstones. If we didn't have those things in our life, how would we learn anything? We would just be walking around like nothing. We need those obstacles in our life because I know one thing - I'm a much better person for them.

I was naive in that I thought I could just sing and perform and do what I had always wanted to do all my life. But I wasn't ready for all the added dramas that came along. There were times I fell out of love with music and thought about walking away. I thought I was happier when I was that girl at home in my bedroom singing into my hairbrush.

My whole life has changed in the last three years and The Walking Dead' is no small part of that. It's changed my life and will continue to do so.

I'm walking proof that second chances work. I want to help others get the same opportunities I've been given.

So much of writing is like walking down a dark hallway with your arms out in front of you. You bump into a lot of things.

I got into hula hooping at age six - I hula hooped all day, every day. That was something I was comfortable with, but I never tried walking or singing while hula hooping! It's actually pretty difficult and tiring. But I like challenging myself. It's hard, but it's really fun.

I'm fighting hard, I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over people to get where I'm going and I would really like to give back especially to my mom, who was there for me when I was a kid.

If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.