Quotes About Perseverance

Champions get up when they can't.

A champion is someone ho gets up, een when he can't

A champion is someone who gets up when they can't

For another, no person or place is the sum of a single tragedy or continuing ones.

she knew how to manage pain. She made herself cheerful. The worse things got, the more cheerful she became.

goalposts, tore chunks of the field as souvenirs, and surrounded our team in their mud- and grass-stained

Maybe I live in what is for me the wrong time.

But it was the kind of story that doesn't go away after the first time you tell it so you have to tell it over and over until it goes away for good. If it ever can.

chair wouldn't rock. So I heaved myself from side to side. It still didn't move. I gripped the arms and jerked myself around and hung way out over the arms like some rodeo rider on a wild bull.

Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others.

Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.

You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.

You can't work in a steel mill and think small.

and continued to lead his men; as you would imagine, his demonstration

In its lifetime, an albatross is believed to fly around fifteen million miles. To put that into perspective, it is the same as flying half way to Mars when it is at its closest distance to the Earth.

We like to praise birds for flying. But how much of it is actually flying, and how much of it is just sort of coasting from the previous flap?

The trouble with life is that the moment someone tells you something is impossible, someone else promptly proves that it isn't

After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.

Don't let your dreams be dreams

This book was written with the hope that it will] save someone who wants to give up, for there is always a new life waiting.

As I sit with pen in hand, I am wondering, "Just what the hell do you think you are doing, Kelly?" I ask myself all the questions: how and why and will they be able to understand; can you spell good enough to get this message across? I keep coming up with the same answer: "Give it a try"- this as you see, is what I will do.

You could grow up every which way, a tree standing tall and straight in an open field or blasted and twisted on the side of a mountain.

Kid... comics will break your heart.

For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.