Quotes About Perseverance

You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has to do.

The man spends half of his life trying, and the other half is preventing.

Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age.

Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

Even at my age, I'm trying to improve. Never give up, no matter what. Even if you get last place - finish.

Old age is a hindrance to creativity but cannot crush my youthful spirit.

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well.

I was a late developer and, at the age of 15, I almost thought of quitting football.

I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.

No gains without pains.

If you dedicate yourself to something, you can achieve it. It's simple, but it's true, and your age is just an excuse.

The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.

My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.

I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.

Age is just a number, and your talent will never fail you. It has no expiry date.

You don't realize what fine fighting material there is in age. ... You show me any one who's lived to over seventy and you show me a fighter - some one who's got the will to live.

That however advanced any man may 'be-in' age or piety, he is still in danger of falling.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae

He's tough (Tiger Woods). I wish I was that tough when I was his age.

It is pain that ages us, not years.

I started my ministry when I was 19, I was pastoring at 22 and I got married when I was 24, so I was building at such a young age and that fight, that dream and tenacity is still in me.