Quotes About Perseverance

The more steps you take towards the end, the fewer steps you have to take towards the end!

You know the good thing with hardships and moving on? -- you'll surely taste the pleasure of getting up and do more. Be better!

What are you supposed to do when something like that happens? Do you hold on or let go?

If I told you that a flower bloomed in a dark room, would you trust it?

He who can listen to the music in the midst of noise can achieve great things.

In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine.

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

I spend most of my evenings grinding into the early morning to my favorite music.

Unfortunately I've been to jail a couple times. Anytime I come in it's difficult to make music, write songs.

Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

One day you pick up the guitar and you feel like a great master, and the next day you feel like a fool. It's because we're different every day, but the guitar is always the same…beautiful.

There are three things I was born with in this world, and there are three things I will have until the day I die-hope, determination, and song.

Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.

Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.

If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth.

Even if the world ends, the Music will still survive...

I don't believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.

I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.