Quotes About Perseverance

The greatest thing my dad taught me came from when I called him from a phone booth and said, 'Hungry. No bus token. Please. Out of options.' He said, 'Pfft, get a job.

My dad always said, If someone hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Plus that also works wonderfully as a metaphor.

My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.

Back in high school I told my dad, "I'm going to have a computer someday." And he said that it cost as much as a house-the downpayment on a house. And I said, "Well, I'll live in an apartment."

Many a night I woke to the murmer of paper and knew (Dad) was up, sitting in the kitchen with frayed King James - oh, but he worked that book; he held to it like a rope ladder.

He's been dead for so many years, but I'm still trying to impress him. That's what gave me my drive. 'Look at me, Dad, I've succeeded.'

And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.

I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts.

You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.

My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.

It is a challenge to have your launch date slip continuously.

Trust me, somewhere over the rainbow, happily ever after, etcetera, etcetera - looks far less likely in your mid-thirties.

If I have to die tonight,if this weight is going to kill me tonight,so be it! I am dying where I wanna be

The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death.

Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

I started with this idea in my head, "There's two things I've got a right to, death or liberty."

TRUE Courage is when you are scared to death and STILL saddle up and ride in!

That which does not kill me can only make me stronger.

Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three

If you say the Rosary faithfully unto death, I do assure you that, in spite of the gravity of your sins, 'you will receive a never-fading crown of glory'

One must keep working continuously; otherwise, one thinks of death.

The party don't stop, til the casket drop.

When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.

Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.