Quotes About Perseverance

In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.

You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other...

The man walked from his shoulders, anticipating life's next blow, the way ageing boxers did.

So long as Man endures, so too does Chaos.

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.

If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried alive--then don't be a writer.

What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with - no future at all?

Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edgeI'm tryin' not to lose my headIt's like a jungle sometimesIt makes me wonder how I keep from going under.

Grant Barrett

Life is full of obstacle illusions.

You can't teach hungry, my dad always reminded me. Either you are or you aren't.

We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.

You have given them an ideal to aspire to, embodied their highest aspirations. They will race, and stumble, and fall and crawl....and curse....and finally.... They will join you in the sun, Kal-El. They will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun. In time you will help them accomplish wonders.

Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast." Ace Rimmer

Failure isn't bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.

pero si te vas, luego no valen quejas. Mientras sigas intentándolo, hay una posibilidad. Pero ¿si te rindes? Ahí es cuando muere el sueño.

Either dance well or quit the ballroom.

When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.

We fought and argued and loved and learned through the long, cold voyage. We chose teams, disbanded, re-formed, chose again, and now the fit is perfection within diversity.

Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing's wrong, but every breath hurts.

Dealing with jackasses on every front today. Good thing I have tiger blood and Adonis DNA. (Charlie Sheen Reference)

Suffering builds character. - Miranda Tate

Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you.