Quotes About Perseverance

God is never late, we're just impatient.

God uses no one until He first puts them through the storm. The greater your mission, the greater your storm.

Sometimes God lets you hit rock bottom so that you will discover He is the Rock at the bottom.

'Tis but a scratch' 'A scratch?! Your arm's off!' 'No, it isn't.'

It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get

My sister wanted to be an actress. She never made it, but she does live in a trailer... so she got halfway. She's an actress, she's just never called to the set.

Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling. Aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.

Please, dear God, don't let me fu.. up.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

I will never give in to old age until I become old.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be. Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen.

An age at which many men are not quite common - at which they are hopeful of achievement, resolute in avoidance, thinking that Mammon shall never put a bit in their mouths and get astride their backs, but rather that Mammon, if they have anything to.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Well, I was lucky enough to be involved in about 19 failures at an early age, so I'm realistic about the success I'm having and how quickly it can go away. What's important is to be smart about it.

Old age is not total misery, experience helps.

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

For age and want save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day.

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Last, but by no means least, courage - moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle - the roar of the crowd on one side and the.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Old age is no place for sissies.