Quotes About Perseverance

Into the sky to win or die.

There comes a time when you're losing a fight that it just doesn't make sense to keep on fighting. It's not that you're being a quitter, it's just that you've got the sense to know when enough is enough.

Just like when there's a time that a smart person knows enough is enough, there's a time when you know you've got to fight.

Hoping is such hard work. It tires you out and you never seem to get any kind of reward. Hoping feels like you're a balloon that has a pinhole that slowly leaks air.

Christopher Paul Curtis

You know, there's something especially lonely about a gold medal hanging all by itself on a bedroom wall, something that says "fluke," or "beginner's luck," or "one in a million," but two gold medals, now that says something completely different. That says, "Oh, yeah, baby, this is the real deal!

Christopher Paul Curtis

his sermons go on so long that some of the time you feel like begging, "Take me now, Jesus," 'bout halfway through 'em.

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out.

A Hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.

And now the matchless deed's achiev'd,Determin'd, dar'd, and done.

Glory comes from keeping on trying when you're losing, not from giving up!

God does not ask that you never fail—He asks only that you persevere.

I came to you tardy and late as I usually do to the better things in my life

I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.

Homey don't quit. What else are you gonna do? It's like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after it's over they check the clock and go home. That's how it goes.

Tough love? That's bullshit. You love your kid and you keep on loving your kid. You take your kid back no matter what, and you keep on taking your kid back. Once, twice, a hundred times. The tough-love philosophy tells you to give your kid a million bucks and say, Don't come home until you're clean. Well, I did that. I gave my daughter a million bucks. She never got clean, and she never came home. She died.

He never learned to read or write so wellBut he could play a guitar just like ringing a bell.

Life was hard. Life was good. Most folks think this a contradiction, but I have learned that the hardest, most difficult times of my life caused the most growth in my character.

True courage lies in the heart of one who sees the monstrous form of evil before him but yields not to the fear that calls retreat.

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I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.