Quotes About Perseverance

she was running because she still could.

Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.

take solace in the fact that you can quit at any time. I cannot.]

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.

Skinny guys fight till they're burger.

Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.

What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

I suppose it's comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.

The air will always be to filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.

To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.

You'll need to suffer to make any real art.

Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.

Many people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.

No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.

Maybe people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

This deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.

I might be a touch of a sadist and a little bit jejune... but at least I'm not a victim, not any longer. I hope. I hope, therefore I am.