Quotes About Perseverance

Sometimes in life, son, when you pray and you've said and done all you can,

My soul-filled experiences have taught me to embrace disappointments, knowing

At eighteen years old, she found herself pregnant with my sister, and at nineteen pregnant again with my other sister. The abuse, beating, yelling, and belittling never stopped. At twenty-four years, she was pregnant again, and there I was, born into it.

IN THIS ERA of instant gratification and gotta-have-it-now impatience, it's hard to imagine putting everything you have, and I mean everything—all your money, all your

energy, all your hopes—into a dream, then meeting the hard knocks of failure over and over again, falling down and getting up…having to push yourself up to rise and try again for seven long years.

payment and money that should have gone to my apartment, and rented the 14th Street Playhouse in downtown Atlanta. I hired actors, built scenery, and rented props. I did the whole nine yards on my own, spending all I had to my name.

Every year for five years I spent every cent I had on I Know I've Been Changed, putting it on in different cities and in different theaters. Every single show—every one—failed. The financial failure and the heartbreak tore at my faith. Yet something kept the dream alive in my mind and in my heart and so I kept going, kept hoping, until finally, in 1998, I'd

I tell you when it's over. You don't tell me when it's over. Now get up again and look out the window.

I agreed to do it, but the night the show was opening, March 12, 1998, was the coldest

night I'd ever felt in Atlanta. And the heat was out in the theater. I was sitting in the dressing room, angry, frustrated, and feeling empty and hopeless. I was so agitated with disappointment that I couldn't sit still. I stood up and started pacing back and forth and speaking out loud to God. "You bring me out to these moments and you never see me through. What's going on?

Every national promoter I had spoken with during the past seven years, every one who had turned me down, now had offers in hand to take me on tour. Before long I was playing arenas with 20,000 seats and filling every one of them.

One day, after yet another failed running attempt, I confessed to a good friend how frustrated I was about my sorry running chops. "Tyler, you've got it all wrong," he said. "It's not about the speed or the distance. It's about the endurance." I rolled his words around my mind and remembered Ecclesiastes 9:11 (KJV):

Focus on one step at a time. Be grateful for how far you've come. Thank God for where you are. Keep going.

Everything that happens to you in this life, if you conquer it, if you beat it, you've won. Embrace every day you get.

Yeah, my mom always taught me to love my booty, even when it was very difficult to when it was very, very skinny and there was nothing I could do to gain weight—and then also when I got bigger and was having difficulty losing weight. She was always there for me.

I went from being very popular and the head of the clique in the sixth grade to having, like, kid depression in the seventh grade. Not leaving the house. Not looking people in the eye.... My body made me feel bad at everything.... I just was so depressed that I just focused on my studies and had a 4.0. And I really tried to be proud of that because that was the only thing I was excelling in.

People always ask me if I'm going to stop modeling because I have started an acting career. I hope to continue to model for years to come.

When one door of opportunity slams shut in your face, you don't turn around and go home, boo. Oh, no. You just go through that side door, and if that's closed, go through the back door, the cellar door, the attic—just get in the damn house!

The important thing is to keep your eyes on the road and keep going. Stay focused. Don't stop. Don't turn back. And don't forget to enjoy the wild ride.

My interest is to point out to you that you can walk, and please throw away all those crutches. If you are really handicapped, I wouldn't advise you to do any such thing. But you are made to feel by other people that you are handicapped so that they could sell you those crutches. Throw them away and you can walk. That's all that I can say. 'If I fall....' - that is your fear. Put the crutches away, and you are not going to fall.

Missglückte Lebensgeschichten zu erzählen, anderen die Schuld zuzuschieben, die "Mängel aufzuzeigen", ist allemal leichter, als mühsame, aber erfolgreiche Werdegänge darzustellen, ohne in die Nähe von Kitsch zu geraten.

The word for patience in Arabic is 'cactus'. They have the same meaning -'to endure thirst'.

I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten. Then he who continues the attack wins.