Quotes About Perseverance

At the end of drama school, I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.

Look,' I said, 'I'll be honest with you. You're a big chap, and I'm sure you can do more press-ups than I can. And I admire you for it. This world needs people to be able to do press-ups. It's important.

Minä olen tuhkimus! Raivoisa tuhkimus!

It's all a mystery, so much is mysterious.And we are here to endure it.And in the How, there lies the whole difference—

I'm 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bed ridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.

Well, there you are: a hobbit amongst the Urukhai. Keep up your hobbitry in heart, and think that all stories feel like that when you are in them. You are inside a very great story! Letter 66 From a letter to Christopher Tolkien

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer -- he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

When you are frustrated and do not know a way out, only flexibility and moderation towards difficulties will save you.

She has seen the good, the bad and the ugly, and yet her dreams still seem far from being realised.

Through pain comes wisdom. I endured a lot of pain.

When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.

Lincoln Steffens has a fable of a man who climbed to the top of a mountain and, standing on tiptoe, seized hold of the Truth. Satan, suspecting mischief from this upstart, had directed one of his underlings to tail him; but when the demon reported with alarm the man's success—that he had seized hold of the Truth—Satan was unperturbed. "Don't worry," he yawned. "I'll tempt him to institutionalize it." That

The past is comforting, Natalie. It's comforting because we survived it.

There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

How we choose to deal with pain is ultimately the measure of who we are and of the success we have in closing our gaps.

A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger is without blame. Do not complain about this truth Enjoy the good fortune you still possess.

Success is a collection of problems solved.

To Win, You have to accept defeat