Quotes About Perseverance

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least, get out of the way so you won't get run over.

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.

Home wasn't built in a day.

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be stronger, but hopefully you're wiser. And if you keep most of your marbles intact, you can add a note of wisdom to the coming generation.

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog.

The man that runs away lives to die another day.

If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Doing nothing is very hard to do...you never know when you're finished.

Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.