Quotes About Perseverance

There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

May we all be faithful in doing the day-to-day, ordinary things that prove our worthiness, for they will lead us to and qualify us for great things.

And here I am using my own lungs like a sucker.

Whoever does great things with small means has successfully reached the goal.

I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.

I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I cant. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.

It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.

If lessons are learned in defeat, our team is getting a great education.

I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

I began to practise day and night, and the more I did, the more I was overwhelmed by the tremendous achievement of that great family of black American musicians I was beginning to know closely.

Any great achievement is preceded by many difficulties and many lessons; great achievements are not possible without them.

Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.

To have success, you can't let failure stop you. To have great success, you can't let success stop you.

The great companies get built by their founders

But through world wars and a Great Depression, through painful social upheaval and a Cold War, and now through the attacks of September 11, 2001, our Nation has indeed survived.

Our God, the Great Spirit, seems also to have forsaken us. Your God makes your people wax stronger every day. Soon they will fill all the land.

Being a great athlete is something that requires a lot of training and dedication, it does not come as easily as some people may think.

Every great thing requires a great sacrifice.

By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.

A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all." Elemental things.