Quotes About Perseverance

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

Había fracasado tantas veces que uno también se cansa de fracasar, así como uno se cansa de vencer y de estar sano y de llevar una vida normal.

Es propio del enemigo enflaquecerse y perder ánimo, dando huida sus tentaciones, cuando la persona que se ejercita en las cosas espirituales pone mucho rostro contra las tentaciones del enemigo. Cuando el enemigo de natura humana trae sus astucias y suasiones a la ánima justa, quiere y desea que sean recibidas y tenidas en secreto.

When a storm blows, you must stand firm. For it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.

They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.

I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.

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It's only natural for people to fall, but there are people who, even if they fall, jump right back up right away and run forward, and there are people who just keep sitting there, crying.

No matter how difficult your life has been, you can be certain that your soul is still in perfect condition, waiting for you to set it free.

A tree does not complain That the earth is too dry or too rough That the rains do not come often With patience, forgiveness and harmony It does its best... fulfilling its mission.

Open wide your heart and accept all the experiences of life. Don't let any moment go half-lived. Live with greatness even in moments of sadness and pain. It is no shame to trip and fall as you walk the path of life. Just get up and continue on your way.

Even when it encounters an obstacle, flowing water always goes on its intended way. If it meets a rock, even if it parts, it goes around and around again and keeps flowing. If there is no path, it makes one.

It's only natural to experience times that are difficult and painful, no matter who you are. those are times when anyone would feel tempted to give up on their dream. However, if you try to avoid adversity, you'll end up succumbing to the external environment or to your own limitations. You're able to demonstrate the creative wisdom that can overcome difficulty only if you face it bravely and assertively, instead of avoiding it-and you will grow through your hardship.

During the downward spirals, Hank would go to the brink, then pull himself back in the nick of time. He did it so many times that he probably made the fatal mistake of thinking he could always do it

Like Lilly, she saw the alcoholism in terms of self-control, a view that was reinforced by the fact that there were times when Hank could control it

If today brings no hope we should plan for tomorrow.

Colin Falconer

I'm not patient, and some things drive me crazy. In my work, I get incredibly upset when people don't get it right or don't respect others' needs.

There is a powerful human compulsion to leave things tied up in neat little bundles. But every journey except your last has an open end. And any journey of value is above all a chapter in a personal odyssey. Its end is not so much a goal attained as another point in a continuing process. And the important thing at the end of a journey--or of a book--is to keep moving forward, refreshed, with as little pause as possible.

I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that.

You couldn't live other people's lives?you could only fight for your own and struggle to survive.

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.

Sometimes, when the world is falling apart around you, all that's left to do is dance, right?

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.