Quotes About Perseverance

Oh yes. You've done a marvelous job of succeeding at failure.

The cell door opened. My hands went to my eyes. Why was the door opened? I wasn't dead yet. I think.

Faith dare the soul to go further than it can see.

It's like my father always said to me, he said to me, he said, Roseanna Roseanadana, it's always something. If it isn't one thing--it's another! It's always something.

The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and scarifice?

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

Parkour does not have to be liked or disliked! Parkour is here and it will stay here forever! Because it was born from a pure heart and nourished from all the love that a son can give to his father!

My father was a milkman. So, I delivered milk.

I grew up in the 30s with an unemployed father. He didn't riot; he got on his bike and looked for work and he kept looking 'til he found it.

I learned discipline from my father. Not in terms of corporal punishment, but being determined in whatever you do, and sticking with it.

Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.

Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.

William Tell's son, Telly, who said as his father was pointing the bow and arrow at the apple on his head, There's gotta be an easier way to kill worms. Never got a dinner!

My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.

When I felt rather overcome with [my father's] opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work.

Merciful Father, I will not complain. I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain.

I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.

I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude.

My father is a guy who will fight and he will fight for America and he's always fought for himself.

I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he got sick and I had to take over. Being a plumber in the South Bronx wasn't fun.

I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

I am the son of an illiterate father and mother.

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

I was lucky enough to have a father who said, 'Don't quit.' So I just kept going.