Quotes About Perseverance

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

The book [ One Thousand Gifts] took just over a year to write, on the fringe hours, early and late, around home educating 6 kids and farming and blogging.

When I was in Washington, I would usually get home from the Capitol at about 7:30 or 8, and I would try to write as much as possible. It was almost all in the wee hours.

There weren't any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her weight and she limped home bleeding from the ball.

He remembered his home now, and that gave him new determination to succeed. He was fighting for two camps now -- two families.

The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15.

I just try to get on anyway that I can, hit, hit-by-pitch, walk, home runs, anything.

However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know you now, I shall know you again when you come home.

Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post.

The Orlando Magic were so bad last season, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in their cheers.

I'll never forget what it was like to hold my wife and children again, to know that I was home, to know that I had managed to survive.

Everything is sore right now. Everything. I look like I'm doing okay but I can't wait to get home.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!

I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.

Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.

I've been stabbed before. Barely a week ago, in fact. AND I've been audited, AND I come from a broken home. In short - no offense, shorty - you don't scare me.

I'm pretty active, so I wasn't really worried [about filming "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ]. But there was a day when I was like, "God, I've been rowing for two hours."

I used to go to the same club every week in my home town, and even there I'd always stay at the back of the queue. I never once assumed I could just walk in.

I broke all my rackets. I didn't have a racket for the fifth set. I broke four. Now I hold the record. Now I go home. No rackets. I really don't like these rackets.

I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.

Every day, getting up early in the morning before much traffic, my wife takes me 10 miles from home, drops me off, and I have to get back.

The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.

A bright future beckons. The onus is on us, through hard work, honesty and integrity, to reach for the stars.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.