Quotes About Perseverance

I've got a bad leg; I'm a little overweight, so I can't run fast, but I will fight.

When I came to Mumbai seven years back, I used to hate the fact that I am overweight.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

It keeps me from getting too overwhelmed about the industry when I can just do my math homework.

I don't feel like I'm overwhelmed from meeting people and telling my story over and over again.

I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.

The truth is, I almost always did accomplish what I said I would - in the face of overwhelming obstacles!

There is probably no job on earth for which an ability to believe six impossible things before breakfast is more of a requirement than software project management.

Meaningful acts of leadership usually cause people to accept some short-term pain (extra cost or effort, delayed gratification) in order to increase the long-term benefit. We need leadership for this, because we all tend to be short-term thinkers.

The car business is a lot like football. In football, you have to win once a week. In the car business, you have to win every day.

Back water done rose at Sumner," sings Patton, "drove poor Charlie down, down the line.

It was country dark, as Alice Jones had called these nights, the absence of any light but what you brought to the table. He sped up, his eyes focused on what was before him, and drove toward home.

When the Levee Breaks," by Memphis Minnie. Memphis Minnie wrote this with her husband, Kansas Joe McCoy; it was later covered by Led Zepplin.

he loved about people—trouble brought out their grit, their creativity.

Faith is catching a glimpse of a beacon piercing the fog of life and walking toward it, never knowing if heading in the right direction, but pressing onward.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

It's just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies.

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful ' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.

You know, I think anybody who has a dream to do something, that dream will keep you warm in the coldest of nights. You know what I mean? When you're like most lonely... that dream needs to be nurtured and cultivated so, even if you never speak to another person again in your life, that thing, that dream has to keep you company. So I would pour everything into that dream.

You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

Time erodes both steel and stone.' So Ovid had written in the months before his death.

When you encounter the unbelievers, blows to necks it shall be until, once you have routed them, you are to tighten their fetters.

Even when they have been felled, let alone when they are still standing and fighting, they never disgrace themselves

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.