Quotes About Perseverance

When life gets too hard to stand... Kneel.

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!

The life of man is a struggle on earth. But without a cross, without a struggle, we get nowhere. The victory will be ours if we continue our efforts courageously, even when at times they appear futile.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need

I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it.

So as sure as the sun will shine,. I'm gonna get my share now of what's mine And then the harder they come the harder they'll fall, one and all.

Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life.

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes

There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

You know it ain't easy For these thoughts here to leave me There's no words to describe it In French or in English Well, diamonds they fade And flowers they bloom And I'm telling you These feelings won't go away They've been knockin' me sideways They've been knockin' me out lately Whenever you come around me These feelings won't go away They've been knockin' me sideways I keep thinking in a moment that Time will take them away But these feelings won't go away.

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes. [On filming MacHale's Navy]

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.

The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.

You cannot make easy decisions unless you first commit yourself to hard solutions.

You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.