Quotes About Perseverance

Rejected pieces aren't failure; unwritten pieces are.

There was still hope. I still had a chance to resurrect myself. I'd just have to do it consciously, every step of the way.

I have no strength now to speak of my loss of strength.

One thing we can easily predict is that anything worth accomplishing will take time, and the bigger our goals are, the more time they will take.

We are to share what we've gone through with one another. This is how we encourage one another. This is how we embody the very presence of the God of all comfort.

Endure with a tenacious hope that cannot be found elsewhere.

For a moment, you won't be certain what you've done. What you've done is this: You have done the best you could. On the darkest of pathways, you have managed to stay true to the better angel of your nature.

The road to rock and roll Heaven is paved by the bleached skulls of guys like me. I had no idea such things were nearly impossible.

In life, everybody gets the same three chords. It's what you do with them that matters.

'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.

There's something in human nature, the trying-to-get-on-with-it quality of people, the struggle to maintain or keep the show going can be exhausting.

I find fear is a great motivator to work hard.

a few weeks before production wrapped on the movie 'Le Mans', racer David Piper lost control of his car and crashed as the cameras rolled. Years later, Piper recounted to a reporter, "I suddenly found myself sitting in only half a car, surrounded by smoke and dust, and I thought, Good Lord, that's my shoe over there--- and my foot is still in it!

1Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us

Real spiritual growth comes only through discipline and perseverance. In other words, it comes through sticking with it. One of the traps for all of us, however, is substituting activity for genuine fellowship with God. I

doubt they had ever heard anyone sing in that dungeon before.

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

Do not ever give up trying - because eventually you will win." Judge Greg Mathis

We shall pursue our dreams "until [we] reach[…] it. Or fail[…] trying.

But what you're trying to do is much more difficult than climbing K2

Don't yell at people. Stand up for what's right. Put yourself in the other persons place. Respect women. Don't take no for an answer. Laugh at yourself. Don't believe what you are told. Fall in love.

We have our mission and we are going to complete it. So grab your straws and suck it the fuck up.

You cannot lose what is inside you," Chirrut said. "You can only misplace it. The task, then, is to find it again.

My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person.