Quotes About Perseverance

I've said my patience is not infinite.

I know that the odds are against a marriage lasting 60 years.

I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play.

The making of a champion is one not given the benefit of the doubt on rumored abilities.

Challenge is good for any relationship.

No Desperation, No Dignity.

Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?" Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads.

Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.

But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.

Don't trip over haters, step over them

My mom always says, "Keep your chin up." That's how I ran into the door.

The harder I push, the further I fall.

I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble.

Never let your obstacles become more important than your goal.

Because I'm going to make you understand the family motto: Never let your obstacles become more important than your goal.

On her walls she'd posted the family slogan: Never let your obstacles become more important than your goal. The goals: go to class, get your grades up, graduate, stay out of jail, survive.

Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Because I'm going to make you understand the family motto: Never let your obstacles become more important than your goal.

Lord, strengthen my inconstant resolve with your unfailing grace.

Welcome to my world, Melvin! Girls have to work harder than boys... and we still get less!!! Less respect... less money... less freedom... less opportunities... and dopes like you never even notice!!!

In the wake of the Longitude Act, the concept of "discovering the longitude" became a synonym for attempting the impossible.

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball

The remote control had 48 buttons. No resident of the Old Farts Senile Dying Center knew how to operate it. They were the Greatest Generation, men and women who had survived the Depression, defeated the Nazis, built America into the greatest nation the world had ever seen. But this damned gizmo had beaten them.

I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.

It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.