Quotes About Perseverance

Cindy Sheehan is one tough mother. And nothing you say or anyone else is gonna slow her down.

When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.

From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true.

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey.

When you feel neglected, think of the female salmon, who lays 3, 000, 000 eggs but no one remembers her on Mother's Day

My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to give up, it was her. But she didn't, and neither did we.

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.

Life - with or without softener- is hard

When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.

You do stand alone sometimes. But my mother stood by me through all this.

I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.

My mother was a washerwoman - or a woman that cleaned houses in Texas... in Plano, Texas - who always loved poetry and always loved stories.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

When you want to give up remember why you started.

Sometimes life hits with a brick in the head, don't lose hope.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

The hard days are what make you stronger.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.