Quotes About Perseverance

The main difference between those who succeed in life and those who fail is the knowledge of how to get back up.

Si resta insieme per lealtà e senso del dovere, oppure per il timore di dover ricominciare tutto da capo.

Tra le coppie che sono state capaci di mantenere vivo l'amore fino al matrimonio, solo il cinquanta per cento rimane unito.

A week after our daughter Lauren was born, my wife, Bonnie, and I were completely exhausted. Each night Lauren kept waking us. Bonnie had been torn in the delivery and was taking painkillers. She could barely walk. After five days of staying home to help, I went back to work. She seemed to be getting better.

Quitting is not the answer. Life is not fair, and you can't quit every time something unfair happens to you.

Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.

I've never understood people who grind through a book they don't really like, determined to finish it for some unknown reason.

How do you survive for years in prison? You don't think about years, or months, or weeks. You think about today—how to get through it, how to survive it. When you wake up tomorrow, another day is behind you. The days add up; the weeks run together; the months become years. You realize how tough you are, how you can function and survive because you have no choice.

Dear Mrs. Black: On seven prior occasions this company has denied your claim in writing. We now deny it for the eighth and final time. You must be stupid, stupid stupid, stupid!

I am motivated by thoughts of my sorrowful little client and the screwing that he got. I'm the only lawyer Donny Ray has, and it will take much more than paper to slow me down.

Today was the worst day of his professional life, but tomorrow would be better.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

Those pricks down at the Rotary Club and the church and the coffee shop will not make you a lawyer and will not make you a dime." And, "To be a real lawyer, first you grow a thick skin, and second you tell everybody but your clients to go to hell." And, "A real lawyer is not afraid of unpopular cases.

He was still wet with sweat and the coffee did little to cool things, but he needed it because it was an old friend and starting the day without it was unthinkable.

Sure it will. That's part of it, Abby. It's a cutthroat business where the weak are eaten and the strong get rich. It's a marathon. He who endures wins the gold. And dies at the finish line.

They're all long shots, but we win more than we lose. I've walked eight of my clients out of prison.

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Once a heavy smoker—a good portion of the smoke-stained windows and ceilings could be blamed on her—she had been battling lung cancer for the past three years but had yet to miss a full week of work.

She was forty-one years old, and she was tired. But the fatigue would pass. The old dreams of full-time motherhood and a cushy retirement were forever forgotten.

Mordecai was not one to worry about the things he couldn't change. His desk was covered with the battles he could win.

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And the voice will tell you to pick yourself up, to set a goal, to work harder than anybody else, stick to the basics, execute perfectly, be confident, be brave, and never, never quit. The voice is never far away.

At the outset, I want to say that we would not be here if not for you. Your detective work over the past twenty years is nothing short of brilliant. It's a miracle, actually, and I've never encountered anything like

Twenty-two years later the case is even colder and the police have all but given up. Once we realized that they were getting nowhere, I vowed to try everything to find his killer.