Quotes About Perseverance

In America, everything seemed fixable, and in Japan, difficult problems were to be endured. Shoganai, shoganai. How many times had he heard those words? It cannot be helped. His mother had apparently hated that expression, and suddenly he understood her rage against this cultural resignation that violated her beliefs and wishes. Book 3, page 456

Etsuko held the watch case in her hands and wondered how they'd stayed together with him not giving up and her not giving in.

Man, life's going to keep pushing you sround, but you have to keep playing Book 3, p378

Man, life's going to keep pushing you around, but you have to keep playing Book 3, p378

I don't think racism can be eliminated in my lifetime ... or my children's or grandchildren's. But I think it's something we have to strive for. I'm going to keep working toward that day coming.

I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.

I'm very proud of being a hack. It's why I've lived as long as I have, I think.

Only in a world where faith is difficult can faith exist.

Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of the clich?d dark and stormy night, I found the magical inn, its windows golden lit, and Summer was due to start tomorrow. I can only work at one thing well. Deprive me of that, and my "back-up plan," even now, will be the empty, stormy, darkened heath -- where, incidentally, even unpublished, somehow I'll still be writing.

But the boy knew that monsters didn't die as easily as hope.

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relives you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season

Years ago I had a 1-iron I could hit 260 yards through a doorway. Now I can hit it through the keyhole

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket

This place Augusta National rejects me like a skin transplant.

There are two things you can do with your head down — play golf and pray.

Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

Your recovery is going to be painstaking, like the way the ants are building the tunnels, one grain at a time. But you will get there. I just know it.

No matter whether failure came A thousand different times, For one brief moment of success, Life rang its golden chimes.

He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things.

We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.

Love is a strange fact - it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no sense at all.

It is one thing to say you're at war with this whole world and stick your chest out believing it, but when the world shows up with it's crushing numbers and its predatory knowledge, it is another thing completely.

You can't destroy knowledge. You can stamp it under and burn it up and forbid it to be, but somewhere it will survive.

I had figured out, long ago, that it paid to do what the competition found difficult, distasteful or even just a waste of time.