Quotes About Perseverance

When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light. —Austin O'Malley

He's only mostly dead." She wrenched her head around to see Azagoth striding towards them, a trail of griminions on his heels. "M-mostly dead?" "Haven't you ever seen The Princess Bride?" It took her a second to realize he was making a joke. Mr.Serious, the Grim Fucking Reaper,was joking.

Good to see nearly dying hasn't affected the fact that you're an asshole.

Push yourself, again and again, into positions that say 'no' to your opponent. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

I knew I was as good as anybody. That's not really bragging; it's just that I'd put the time in.

Well, I've been in them locker rooms after tough losses. There is no telling what's said off the record, heat of the battle. Stuff like that never bothered me. Everybody is going to have their opinion, they're going to say what they're going to say, you just go on about your business.

I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.

when you think you have done enough, do a little more, because someone out there is working harder than you.

I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

One of the reasons wars go on is because of the price both sides have paid in blood. After a while, even if the original reason no longer matters, you keep on fighting because you don't want all those deaths to be in vain.

But if you have to choose between someone with a staggering IQ and an elite education who's gliding along, and someone with a lower IQ but who is absolutely determined to succeed, you'll always do better with the second person.

The bar is high. But now you have a ladder.

If you want to write, you've got to shut yourself up in a room and write.

You take what you're given, whether it's the cornfields of the Midwest or the coal mines of West Virginia, and you make your fiction out of it. It's all you have. And somehow, wherever you are, it always seems to be enough.

The road lay long and black ahead of them and the heat was coming now through the thin soles of their shoes. There were young beans pushing up from the dry brown fields, tiny rows of green sprigs that stretched away in the distance.

Henry Moore: You need to hold questions that cannot be fully completed or lived out within the span of your lifetime.

If we look for ways to get rid of necessary pain, we'll be disillusioned or misled. For people who define real change as the elimination of inevitable struggle, the final chapters will be terribly disappointing.

Do you have the fortitude and discipline to stick with your predetermined investment strategy (asset allocation) when the going gets rough?" Successful investment management depends to a large degree on the ability of an individual to withstand the periods of stress and on his/her ability to overcome the severe emotional hurdles present during bear markets like the ones experienced in 1973–74 and 2000–02. In

If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success.

Those who survive a long time on the battlefield start to think they're invincible. I bet you do, too, Buddy.

I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.