Quotes About Perseverance

The studies, Jeremy, I said. The studies, the studies, the studies.

It takes a lot of wind to sail a leaky boat.

If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep the streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, like Beethoven composed music; sweep streets so well that all the host of Heaven and earth will have to pause and say, "Here lived a great street sweeper, who swept his job well."1 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

Difficulties, disappointments, discouragements, and suffering are a part of every work experience, but they need not be seen as obstacles to God's purposes in our lives.

All too often I viewed my work as an obstacle to my spiritual growth.

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their county; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered yet we have this consolation with us, the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

When we appear to be "more a loser than a victor" on the Path it is easy to lose sight of the fact that we are growing spiritually.

He knew for a fact that it was possible to fall and just keep falling.

Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.

Well I won't back down No I won't back down You can stand me up at the gates of hell But I won't back down

I had to learn a new way of playing. I had to practice a lot, and just find ways around the limitations. So it was a bad idea to break my hand. You said you were doing a lot of cocaine. Did that affect your songwriting? No. I think it affected my breaking my hand.

I'll stand my ground and I won't back down...

Well I don't know but I've been told, you never slow down, you never grow old.

They walk the wire across the chasms of their own souls, looking down into the great depths as, step by step, they cross to the distant side. On occasion they've learned something by the time they get there, but not always, and usually not what they expect.

The reward for good work is more work!

Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

I wanted to read a book with a good ending so I wrote one.

Holdfast the Dream

Don't look back, because someone might be gaining on you.

I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately.

I ain't got no spare/I ain't got no jack/I don't give a shit/I'm not going back

It's very hard to stop doing things you're used to doing. You almost have to dismantle yourself and scatter it all around and then put a blindfold on and put it back together so that you avoid old habits.