Quotes About Perseverance

All life is three-to-one against, boychik, but you beat the odds.

I'm a grinder. I am not called to speak at fancy conventions in five-star hotels. The governor has not offered me black robes and elevated me to the bench. I am not interviewed by CNN to comment on the latest trial of the century. And I am not rich.

Mortui non mordent

Life may be a marathon, but sometimes you have to sprint to save a life.

My college coach, Joe Paterno at Penn State, once told me to stop thinking so much. "Buckle your chin strap and hit somebody. Play fast and hard, and something good will happen. Don't be afraid to lose.

Getting Steve to open up was a lot like opening a jar of martini olives. It helps if you bang on his lid a few times.

bring on your minions. I'm always outnumbered but never outgunned.

Distance runners are their own breed. Skinny. Self-sufficient. Patient. Able to endure and conquer pain. Often loners

Fucking things up only takes a few minutes. Making things right, now, that's a lifetime job.

Distance runners are their own breed. Skinny. Self-sufficient. Patient. Able to endure and conquer pain.

I do think there's always a way to put things right. If I didn't believe that I wouldn't get out of bed in the morning, I wouldn't eat breakfast; I wouldn't leave the TARDIS ever. I would never have left home. There is always something we can do.

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

We were doing the best we could with what we had left, and more and more it was like Diogenes tossing away the tin cup because he could drink with his hands. It turns out there is no end to learning what you can do without.

walking with on Robertson was an outing of the self-destructed, trying to make do with one day at a time.

I kept my heart alive in the desert years by turning it into a valentine, holding on to the hope of every romantic cliché like wedding cake under a pillow. If you have to wait as long as I did, you either become an awful sentimentalist or die of disillusion.

You need only to have glimpsed it once to know there's a window out of all this black and sleepless night. Then you must use it to hope on. Key to the dream country where all your people are whole again, and the gunboats can't reach you, and the Empire of Hate is rubble. You and your secret dream of freedom are the tidal wave. Keep watch, every night if you have to. As for sleeping, you can sleep when you're dead.

If softball leagues treated players as delicately as teachers do students, there'd be a rule about not striking out. After three strikes, they'd bring out a tee, or maybe the coach would go up there, take the bat out of the kid's hands, and hit it for him. We'd tell ourselves we were protecting their fragile psyches, when in reality we'd be sending a clear message: You can't do it, so I'll do it for you.

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.

It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.' [After winning his first Oscar after so many losses]

There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.

It's always darkest before it turns absolutely pitch black.

All of this is easier to say than to do.

However, many of us, in spite of respectable lengths of time in recovery, still all too frequently lose our serenity over simple, everyday encounters.