Quotes About Perseverance

Michael J. Fox

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

Ironic that in order to do my life's work, I had to quit my day job.

It is one of the great ironies of my life that only when it became virtually impossible for me to keep my body from moving would I find the peace, security, and spiritual strength to stand in one place. I couldn't be still until I could—literally—no longer keep still.

Don't worry about him," Nana would assure them. "Michael will do more in his life than you can ever imagine.

Frankly, my height or lack thereof never bothered me much. Although there is no doubt that it has contributed to a certain mental toughness. I've made the most of the head start one gains from being underestimated.

As for my own truncated secondary education, my head was in the clouds as my mom would say, or if you asked my father, up my ass.

Sure, it may be one step forward and two steps back, but after a time with Parkinson's, I've learned that what is important is making that step count; always looking up.

Christopher Reeve had believed in a formula: optimism + information = hope.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

With gratitude, optimism is sustainable.

Chris defined hero as "an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure.

A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.

Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.

Look who's standing if you please, 'though you tried to bring me to my knees.

It's a neighborhood where every dad has at least one job and where parents often end conversations with the words: no guts, no glory.

My generation must have despair. - Leonard Bernstein Ch 40/Dog Water Free, A Memoir

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be agressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.

I have failed over and over gain in my life and that is why I succeed.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.

My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn't stand the sideline.