Quotes About Perseverance

I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once.

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and i told him i'm gonna beat out my own rhythm

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

And you will understand all too soon That you, my children of battle, are your heroes

Don't bother about what people say, mija," he told me. "Let them talk. They only prove their ignorance." I know my father's right. I also know that words have teeth. Sometimes I get tired of the bite marks.

You laugh, rap my woody shell with wicked whispers shaped like knuckles, then toss me aside. Lucky for me, I don't bruise easily. Besides, you loss is someone else's gain for I am coconut, and the heart of me is sweeter than you know.

My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.

Van Gogh became a painter because he had no ear for music.

when you can't climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home…

When you die, every single muscle in your body hurts. Your body has closed down because it thinks it's done, and when it gets rebooted, every inch of you hurts. Plus I'd had the shit beaten out of me with a baseball bat.

Life can be cruel. It´s been my struggle, my personal battle, my obsession to make people see that different isn´t always bad.

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails, first thing in the morning you'll read emails, and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself.

I saw that I'd get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.

In this world, people always find a way of doing what they want

And at such moments his eyes would grow winning, and his features assume an expression of intense satisfaction. Yet never did these projects pass beyond the stage of debate. Likewise there lay in his study a book with the fourteenth page permanently turned down. It was a book which he had been reading for the past two years!

Always a friend or a comrade may fail you, and be the first to desert you in a time of adversity; but never will a KOPECK fail you, whatever may be your plight.

Ce frumos e?ti câteodat? drumule, drumule îndep?rtat! De câte ori, ca unul care piere ?i se îneac?, m-am ag??at de tine ?i tu de fiecare dat? m-ai scos cu m?rinimie la mal ?i m-ai salvat! ?i câte idei minunate, câte vis?ri poetice mi-au venit în minte în timp ce te str?b?team, câte impresii încânt?toare mi-ai prilejuit!...

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.

Because of pressure, there are diamonds.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.