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Quotes About Perseverance

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.
~ John le Carre
What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.
~ Karen Kain
It is difficult to get played at my age on the radio.
~ Kenny Rogers
I started singing at age five and haven't stopped since.
~ Kimberly Caldwell
I have the experience of age and suffering.
~ Liv Ullmann
I just loved to play. I liked to study the other ballplayers. I could talk about it for ages, because I played professional ball for 20 years, and I was still learning when I quit.
~ Lloyd Waner
I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.
~ Mackenzie Astin
She wasn't trying to overcome life, only to get along with it, to blend with the processes she could scarcely understand in a world that had permitted her no solid ground.
~ Jim Harrison
From the age of seven, I basically started practicing my hand-eye and foot coordination, balance, strength, endurance, discipline, and mental toughness three days a week until I was about 15.
~ Ashton Eaton
When you bat, you need to have a lot of patience. I started training for it from the age of eight or nine. So, I knew what I needed when I stepped on the field to bat.
~ Mohammad Azharuddin
If I'm going to fail, I want to fail trying.
~ Tiffany Hawk, Love Me Anyway
She's not pushing forty she's dragging it.
~ Anonymous
To what do you attribute your advanced age? Well I suppose I must attribute it to the fact that I have not died.
~ Sir Malcolm Sargent
Old age is like everything else to make a success of it you got to start young.
~ Fred Astaire
When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.
~ Richard Branson
Cry out loud once. Look at the mirror & shake it off. I've cried like that before & others will have times like that too. Cheer up. You're not alone.
~ Kim Jong-hyun
Daei's all alone here, with four Chelsea defenders for company.
~ Peter Drury
Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.
~ Charles Bukowski
We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them.
~ Frederick Douglass
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.
~ Aeschylus
To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.
~ Frank Herbert
The wooden wall alone should remain unconquered.
~ Herodotus
Notable characters do not alone bear trouble; they use it.
~ Hugh B. Brown