Quotes About Perseverance

Anything is possible. Everything is gettable. You just have to want it badly enough.

Isn't it better to be happy with a problem," he said, "than to be miserable with it?" Don't wallow, Jack told a nation stumbling under recession. When life gets hard, you need to get harder. This

This was the hubris of mankind, to rally in the face of overwhelming odds, to thread the needle and climb the mountain and survive the storm. He

For a time it seemed their marriage would be just another houseplant that had failed to thrive, choked to death by the lack of money and the death of dreams

And so chubby, sugar-brained Jack invented exercise. He became the hero who could do a thousand jumping jacks and a thousand chin-ups in ninety minutes. The muscle that trained itself to finish 1,033 push-ups in twenty minutes by climbing a twenty-five-foot rope with 140 pounds of weight strapped to his belt.

He swam backward through time, lap after lap, until he was six years old and watching Jack LaLanne tow a thousand-pound boat through San Francisco Bay, until that feeling returned -- that deep boy certainty: Anything is possible. Everything is gettable. You just have to want it badly enough. Scott wasn't old, it turned out. He wasn't finished. He had just given up.

This was the hubris of mankind, to rally in the face of overwhelming odds, to thread the needle and climb the mountain and survive the storm.

Practice does not make perfect; practice makes progress. The word progress comes from the Latin progredi, which means 'to step forward.' Life is not about being perfect; it's about having the courage to move forward, one step at a time.

You can have excuses or success—but not both.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

I don't have anything left. My strength is pouring out of me just as my blood is. I've been in a death-storm countless times before. Is this death in its true form?

All of us have to make the best of a bad job - which is what life is really all about.

Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power?

Work hard, do the best you can, don't ever lose faith in yourself and take no notice of what other people say about you.

There are dark times just around the corner. There are dark clouds travelling through the sky. And it's no good whining about a silver lining. For we know from experience they won't roll by.

A heart can break only so often until the spirit breaks with it.

The only thing that will guarantee your failure is quitting. Those who win in this life are not those who never fail. Winners are those who never quit.

Dreams are important, but if they are not followed up by a commitment to the process, then they will simply remain daydreams, never seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. If you are interested in fulfilling your destiny, then you must learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of success.

the road that leads to blessing sometimes—often—goes through valleys and dark places.

Everything was broken, meaning everything could somehow be fixed.

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.

And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

Romance goes like this: Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl again. The end. It can't be any other way.