Quotes About Perseverance

Each day I attempted to play up to their level... and I was improving faster than I ever dreamed possible.

My coach said I run like a girl. And I said if he ran a little faster he could too.

All my life I've been playing up, meaning I've challenged myself with players older, bigger, more skillful, more experienced -- in short, better than me.

I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school.

because one morning as the sun was coming up I told myself that I had to swallow up all of the fear and garbage around me, and once it was inside me I had to transform it all into candy. Becuase I know you will be able to love me for it.

I had spent my life in the river bottoms and Boulder meant a wonderful climax," Crowe recalled in 1943. "I was wild to build this dam." So, too, were the founders of Six Companies, Inc., the unwieldy contracting consortium assembled in 1931 to make a bid on the dam project.

As long as I'm fighting, I'm not dying." - Mara Jade Skywalker

If the quest was supposed to be easy, they would not have given it to someone who is supposed to be a hero.

Coach said something to the effect of 'the only thing worse than running is not having something to run for.

We live in a world where you're not being eaten by a lion when you fail, you just have to get another job.

Boon and Watt had the bad—or perhaps good—fortune to come of age during one of rock's most abject periods. "That Seventies stuff, the Journey, Boston, Foreigner stuff, it was lame," Watt says. "If it weren't for those type of bands we never would have had the nerve to be a band. But I guess you need bad things to make good things. It's like with farming—if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.

To me, it was just a matter of, if you want to do something, the only thing that's going to keep you from doing it is giving up," Leary says. "Because we were proof of that. If you just don't quit, you will succeed—that is the bottom line.

Fortunately, as Jews, we were never short of excuses for entertaining. Most Jewish holidays, an old joke goes, can be reduced to nine words: "They tried to kill us. We survived. Let's eat.

pain always feels brand new no matter how much experience you've had with it!

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

But there's something to be said for truly caring. For making a commitment and sticking to it. For having the strength of character to decide what you think is important and then going out and making it happen no matter how hard or crazy or unpopular it might seem.

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Remember what John Carlos said: "There is no partial commitment to justice. You are either in or you're out." Trust me: if you're willing to be uncomfortable, you will also feel blessed, if you can see it through and make it to the other side.

There are times when a person wants something so badly that price or condition cease to be obstacles.

The Human Spirit can never be paralyzed. If you are breathing, you can dream.

If you want to be happy you have to work to make it happen. You can't just wish for it and you can't put it in the hands of other people.

If you want a happy ending you have to go out and take it.

THERE WILL BE DAYS WHEN LIFE SEEMS HARD, WHEN THE BULLIES CORNER YOU OR HURT YOUR HEART, BUT THOSE DAYS WON'T LAST. THEY CAN'T LAST. SOME DAY SOON THE WORLD WILL LOOK FRESH AND FULL OF POSSIBILITIES AND YOUR DAYS OF BEING PICKED ON WILL END— JUST LIKE THIS STORY. AND THAT, MY FRIENDS, IS WHEN YOUR REAL STORY WILL TRULY BEGIN. I PROMISE.