Quotes About Perseverance

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Dedication. The battle we're in requires "the act of devoting all of one's energy, effort, and abilities to a certain task," as the Muhammad Ali Center boasts on its walls. Folks

Ali always wondered why the press never talked about his supreme commitment to roadwork

After twenty years of living the barren life, I want to believe that now all of my patient dreams will at last be realized

In Osaka slang, a tattoo is called gaman— you know, "patience" or "perseverance." There are two things about getting tattooed that seem to impress people, the money it costs, and the pain it causes.

Your path to this point, the trials you have suffered... taking each of those things that knocked you down and made you grind your teeth and then standing up again is what makes a true hero.

They lived their lives as if their sights were set on the clouds beyond the hill they were climbing.

When I was small, it seems that I was very weak and sickly. My father used to complain about this state of affairs in spite of the fact that "we had the yokozuna [champion sumo wrestler] Umegatani hold you in his arms when you were a baby so that you would grow strong.

Yama-san was the best kind of teacher. Yama-san, I promise you I'll try a little harder, a little longer. This is the memorial speech I offer up to Yama-san.

My innocent request for kend? lessons had brought me a load of unexpected tasks. But I had asked for it, so there was nothing I could do.

Tackle life with as much energy as Goku! I'll try to do the same!

Across time, against darkness, destiny finds a way.

Cilv?ks ir rad?ts, lai nestu savu krustu, t?p?c vi?am doti stipri pleci. Var iztur?t bezgala daudz, ja nav zaud?jis cilv?ku sev?.

We've got to win this battle, and we will. We have to win the peace.

Whining is anger through a small opening.

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.

Even though marriage is doomed, if you turned it into a job you like and really work at it - it can be salvaged.

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Book dedication To myself, without whose inspired and tireless efforts this book would not have been possible.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

Hard work pays off in the end, but laziness pays off now.

He who has never left his hearth and has confined his researches to the narrow field of the history of his own country cannot be compared to the courageous traveller who has worn out his life in journeys of exploration to distant parts and each day has faced danger in order to persevere in excavating the mines of learning and in snatching precious fragments of the past from oblivion.

The inches we need are everywhere around us. They are in every break of the game every minute, every second.

If you get all tangled up, just tango on.