Quotes About Perseverance

My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.

I Came To Mumbai With Just Rs. 1,500 ... My Mother Gave Me Before She Died

I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn't there for that.

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.

Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. Legend tells us that Lincoln's dying mother called her small son to her bedside and whispered, 'Be somebody, Abe'.

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

My mother always told me,"hide your face- people are looking at you". I would reply,"It does not matter; I am also looking at them.

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.

So it was a thing that my mother always taught me to go for your goals and never give up no matter what they are, and I started believing that later on in life.

Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling.

My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.

No one ever laid out the sequence of events that led to my mother being prosecuted and imprisoned for alleged welfare fraud.

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

I'm a fighter as a mother. I'm fighting to be a mother, but I cannot say no to my passion because it's me, as well.