Quotes About Perseverance

At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.

I love doing music, and I plan to do it until I die or as long as I can walk to the piano.

I guess, you know, if I didn't make it with the piano, I guess I would've been the biggest bum.

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

I wish I could play the piano. I started when I was four and finished when I was five. I got bored. I couldn't tell my left hand from my right back then!

When I was a kid, my parents gave me piano lessons and guitar lessons for a while, but I was never very good at it. I have big, sort of awkward hands. It's hard to keep going when you don't get any better.

When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19.

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.

Accidents happen and all of that, but it's how we pick ourselves up from the accidents that matters.

I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

If I fall, pick up the flag, kiss it, and keep on going.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

People ask me, what was your rock bottom? I say, pick.

You have to be confident enough to pick yourself up and go to 30 meetings and be told no every time and not take that to heart.

When you crash and burn, you have to pick yourself up and go on and hope to make up for it.

There's nothing greater than just having people that pick you up when you get knocked down.

It just doesn't go with my story to be a first round pick, because I had to grind my whole life.

I'm not one that sulks when he's injured. I use it as time to learn, to pick up on things.

Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn't hurt people around you, as long as it doesn't hurt you physically, or it doesn't hurt you so much that you can't pick yourself up.

I wanted to show that even if you fail, you have the ability to pick yourself up off the floor and try again. I wanted to show a different side of what a disability looks like to highlight all the invisible ones.

People say, 'Well, why don't they get another job, why don't they pick themselves up by their bootstraps?' Well, the people that say that probably have the kind of jobs where they don't work that hard, so maybe they could have another job.

We all fail - I have failed so many times, but it never discourages me. I just pick up and go.

You know if you give 100 per cent every day that you're going to be happy with yourself. When you lose you've got to pick yourselves up and go again.