Quotes About Perseverance

Zo shook her head. It wasn't going to happen like this, she wanted to say, it didn't get to end this way. He didn't get to win.

I was going into shock. The pain wasn't getting any better, and I thought that I would probably black out before I found out how this was going to end. Just as well—I was never particularly good at finishing things.

You should not be afraid of a little blood," Gobi said. "Life is full of it.

At first I didn't think I'd even be able to play—I had way too much going on in my mind—but to my profound surprise, my fingers didn't seem to care. Apparently if you wanted to rock, it didn't matter if you had explosives in the basement, or a father with a chronic problem with keeping his dick in his pants, or a crazed ex-Blackwater employee with some religious conviction for ripping your head off. Hell, it might have helped.

Ludwig van Beethoven, as you may have heard, was deaf.

If you succeed with one dream...it's not long before you're conjuring up another, slightly harder, a bit more ambitious, a bit more dangerous

He had sat numb, repeatedly questioning why his own tumble had been held on the same piton just before the Japanese leader had fallen and ripped it out. A day later he was his normal self again: an experience absorbed, shelved in his memory, understood and accepted, and left at that.

I'd learned something important about politics Kennedy-style: The cause was everything. Win or lose, spend yourself completely, leave nothing on the table, not even your health. Losing would be painful, but not as painful as knowing there was something else you could've done.

If you don't have some self doubts and fears when you pursue a dream, then you haven't dreamed big enough.

I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.

Life is a tough teacher. First she gives the test.

the night, the brighter the stars; The deeper the grief, the closer is God.

It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me.

The common thread with these people is that they each refused to rely on the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. God will use who you are to minister to many people. Trust in Him and watch Him do great things through you.

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.

In 1597, financially, physically, and spiritually exhausted , de Berrio (Don Antonio de Berrio) passed away with the bitter epitaph, 'If you try to do too much you will end by doing nothing at all.

Sometimes I feel sorry for myself for some of the tougher things I've had to encounter in life, but other than that, I wouldn't change a thing. It makes me happy to know I could endure. And it gets easier and easier as you go on. [—Erykah Badu]

Keep moving!" "Bea's arguing with the floor.

Life's a fight. It's a good fight of faith.

Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.