Quotes About Perseverance

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.

I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

the long-distance run of an early morning makes me think that every run like this is a life- a little life, I know- but a life as full of misery and happiness and things happening as you can ever get really around yourself

Don't let the bastards get you down.

If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.

Hope to the very end, he told himself, even when you've slipped into the fires of Hell and the flames are searing your guts.

Because when on a raw and frosty morning I get up at five o'clock and stand shivering my belly off on the stone floor and all the rest still have another hour to snooze before the bells go, I slink downstairs through all the corridors to the big outside door with a permit running-card in my fist, I feel like the first and last man in the world, both at once, if you can believe what I'm trying to say.

Life has . taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

I have no patience at all.

Life. As solid and as strong as a rock one minute, then hanging by a thread the next

Sometimes it's the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

The humorist George Ade once said, 'Don't pity the martyrs, they love the work.

But we have not understood the world; how its way is to destroy without destroying, the way air levels a mountain; things fly apart in a vacuum... It wears us to the hard thing we cannot help being; and if the only hard thing is our determination not to be hard, it wears us down to that.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.

Oh, hello, Mr. Man You didn't think I'd come back You didn't think I'd show up with my army And this ammunition on my back...I see right through you

Dear God I am tired. It is late. Writing like Shakespeare is hard work for a woman with a cracked head who cannot spell properly.

Amateurs try to write in one go; professionals draft and draft again.