Quotes About Perseverance

You learn a lot more from stories about getting rejected than stories about becoming happy.

I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

I've always said, 'Before you see the rainbow, it has to storm.'

Remember to play after every storm.

God didn't give up on me. I am somebody in God's eyes... Let me be a prime example of how I've been through the storm and the rain, and I made it over.

I'm ready to take the world by storm and have them look at me and say, 'Deaf people can dance.'

You can learn to prevent a storm, or you can learn to ride the storm. If you learn to ride the storm, the storm is not a problem anymore.

You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.

Sometimes when you're in the storm, it's harder and maybe when it's over, then you can look back on it.

I've been through my fair share of highs and lows. Yes, I've been written off, and it amazes me, and it amuses me, also, when I'm written off by the press cause then I tell them that's just the lull before the storm. And every time I've been down, I've been down, never out. So it just makes me work a lot harder.

My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all.

A lot of times when you're making a record, you put your head down and charge forward until you're done. You just hope that the ideas hold up, because you're kind of lost in your own storm.

I am resilient like my mother and have the ability to face any kind of storm.

Football's not particularly crazy. Once you are in it, you're in the eye of the storm, and it's quite nice.

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

'The Storms We Share' has been a project that I've been working on for so long.

You, too, will be driven away from your native land and ancient domains as leaves are driven before the wintry storms. Sleep not longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws, in false security and delusive hopes. Our broad domains are fast escaping from our grasp.

I was gifted at birth with this talent, and I've tried to honor it all my life. And I did - through hell and storms and tsunamis and earthquakes. I've been through too much not to know that giving back is everything.

I've been working in Haiti 28 years - I thought I'd sort of seen it... I've gone through a number of coups, the storms of 2008, I thought, you know, that I'd seen things as bad as they were going to get, and I was wrong.

It's easy to praise God in the good times, but what about when the storms of your flesh are a-brewin'? Not so easy then!

We mainly shot 'Cartel Land' with the Canon C300. The camera was dropped, smashed, hit by guns, in dust storms, torrential rain, and it never, ever failed.

I know that my life story is an inspirational one and one that can, hopefully, help others achieve goals in their own lives.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.