Quotes About Perseverance

I can't do this anymore," I cried, "Why won't you just leave me alone?" Because you would never leave me.

I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor, trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that, and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

History is full of instances of people who challenged the mighty forces of evil and they were not only fighting a lonely battle but were left alone to die.

Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient.

Learn to Lose, Wade to Win.

Get fired, no one will call you a quitter.

Work alone is noble.

You're not alone, there is more to this I know. You can make it out, you will live to tell.

Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.

I've found that if ultimately, if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing things can and will happen.

When you believe in something and truly go after it with all you have, amazing things will happen.

The amazing thing about any movie is not whether it's good, but that it got made at all.

Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.

It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.

After all it was for one justice which is short..., but the journey up to this justice was very long.(Red 2008 Film)

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law in the celestial theatre, where the Angels are the spectators.

There is no room on the golf course for anger or self-pity.

Take the selfishness out of anger and you're left with determination.

Bite your lips, little brother...Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now...Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.

It is a bigger miracle to be patient and refrain from anger than it is to control the demons which fly through the air.

But grief is not a force and has no power to hold. You only bear it. Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

Grandpa's farm had belonged to our people ever since there had been a farm in that place, or people to own a farm. Grandpa's father had left it to Grandpa and his other sons and daughters. But Grandpa had borrowed money and bought their shares. He had to have it whole hog or none, root hog or die, or he wouldn't have it at all.