Quotes About Perseverance

Sometimes people had to hit rock bottom to get to the Rock at the bottom.

What does Jesus do if someone doesn't answer? Does He just walk away? Or does He keep knocking? How many times does He knock?

when someone is going out of their way to make you miserable, recognize that it's the enemy using that person to discourage you.

We all got temptations.

She certainly hadn't been spending as much time with the Lord as she used to—not with starting the business and working seemingly twenty-five hours a day to stay on top of deadlines. No wonder I'm near bankrupt.

You can't let the apocalypse rule your life.

So I kept talking because nothing gets me going like knowing I should shut up. Oh, I should be quiet and full of potential like all those still flowers, but I know I am a weed and I've got to blow my seeds around the garden.

Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks.

Trying," he said at last, "is good. It always is. But failing? Everyone fails, one time or another. It's how you deal with failure that counts, in the end. It's the successes that you're known for-but it's the failures make you what you are.

I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

And so the months and the years have gone by, but little has turned out well for me. Each new year in turn has failed to bring happiness. Indeed, as I think of the unsatisfying events I have recorded here, I wonder whether I have been describing anything of substance. Call it, this journal of mine, a shimmering of the summer sky.

Look, the job of life is to turn your negatives into positives

in true mountaineering, the summit is not everything, it is only part.16

K2 had been climbed, not conquered.

pinned down by a ferocious storm which

No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.

A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there's no guarantee that you will enjoy it, or that it will have a happy ending. Kind of like going out with a girl, having to spend time every day with her - with absolutely no guarantee of nailing her in the end. No thanks.

in the immortal words of Owen Hart, "Enough is enough, and it's time for a chance.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

When I'm 33, I quit.

During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at bats a season. That means I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

Do whatsoever with absolute conviction as there have been beggars who've lived like kings, and there have been kings who've lived like beggars so believe in your self and MickeyMize your life.

Never try till the last, try always, never hope till the last, hope always and never have faith till the last, have faith always. Simply because in reality there is never a last time, time is eternal. So let your effort, hope and faith be eternalized, make everything possible and get MickeyMized.

Roads never existed before man did, they were built. So blast the rocks and make the roads, frogs leap higher than the toads, let your goals be super super-sized, make your own roads or fly and MickeyMize