Quotes About Perseverance

Mark Rubinstein

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

That's not gon fu." We stared at each other for a long time, then he raised on eybrow. "I could fix it, if you wanted." I must have nodded, because then he asked me if I could chi ku, eat bitter, the Chinese expression meaning to endure suffering. Lying, I said yes. Then he asked me if I was afraid of pain. Lying again, I said no. "You want?" he asked. "I want, " I said, and became his student.

Yes, we shall win in the end; but the road will be long and red with monstrous martyrdoms." Oscar Wilde, 1897, on his release from Reading Gaol

By making a comeback, I'm changing the attitude of people toward me. If I'd known that people would react so enthusiastically, I'd have done it years ago.

One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.

We all love to win, but how many people love to train?

I just tried to keep my cool and continue with my race plan: to win.

Swimming isn't everything, winning is.

I swam my brains out.

Real life doesn't skip the rough stuff.

So many silent battles are waged By those who sit alone and wait, and by those who delay.

The Hill I have come this far on my own legs, missing the bus, missing taxis, climbing always. One foot in front of the other, that is the way I do it. It does not bother me, the way the hill goes on. Grass beside the road, a tree rattling its black leaves. So what? The longer I walk, the farther I am from everything. One foot in front of the other. The hours pass. One foot in front of the other. The years pass. The colors of arrival fade. That is the way I do it.

How many times should you try before you give up? If you want something bad enough, you will keep trying until. Until what? Until you succeed.

I consider myself a student of success. I'm no better or smarter than anyone else. I'm just another starving man showing others where the food is.

The difference between success and failure is effort.

The distance doesn't matter. Just think about your next step.

The Alps had taught him not to fret and whine at difficult circumstances. It was a waste of energy.

Faith is a strange creature," Schuster said. "Like a falcon that nests year after year in the same place, but then flies away, sometimes for years, only to return again, stronger than ever.

If a bomb's coming at you, it's coming at you. You can't go around worrying about it. Just go on doing what you love, and go on enjoying your life.

Nothing in life worth doing is easy

Try to be grateful for every setback or tragedy, because by living through them, you become stronger.

Pino ignored her, focusing instead on the locomotive in an apron chugging out of the kitchen

They were all fighting back, part of the growing resistance.