Quotes About Perseverance

There is no failure unless you quit. Only success not yet won. ~Haghuf, in Power of the Dance

Mies joka ei ole hankala on kuin soutuvene jossa ei ole hankaimia. Se menee minne vesi tahtoo ja vie.

Karkealla kouralla elämä tahkoaa hymyä naamalta pois.

Älkää hymyilkö nähdessänne minut, sillä minun hymyni ei hyydy koskaan.

Sisyfos optimistina: Vierivä kivi ei sammaloidu.

Joskus katselen rystysteni arpia, muistelen lapsuuden opetuksia. 'Jos ovi ei aukene, se aukaistaan.

I'm not a very good sleeper. But you know what? I'm willing to put in a few extra hours every day to get better. That's just the kind of hard worker I am.

[Y]ou can do it, even if you can't. Just keep can'ting until eventually you can.

Never let go of a good thing without a fight. Especially if that good thing is a pair of boxing gloves.

In high school I barely made the rodeo team. But I wasn't good enough to start, so I just rode the bench.

My advice for a person who's just fallen out of a skyscraper window is, Flap your arms...faster.

I want to write the Boston Marathon of run-on sentences. And since it'll be so long, I'll replace all the commas with the word Gatorade, to help push people through it.

The worst is yet to come: I'm still alive.

Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.

Recovery is treacherous but the peace and contentment that awaits us is beyond description. Trust your gut. Stay the course."2

People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.

In your pursuit of excellence, remember that hard work is often the remedy to feeling ordinary, incapable, and discouraged.  

My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do that. And so far, I think it's respect and quality and company, not celebrity or box office or stardom. It's not a sprinter's approach. It's more like a long-distance thing. You can stick around a lot longer if you kind of slow-play it.

Throughout my 20s I spent a lot of time just playing and not really working, but fortunately for me I continued to get just enough work, and have a reason to wake up in the morning. I really empathize with some of my peers who had success in the early years then it dries up, and so there's no reason to get up in the morning.

From the highest mountains in the world, Men seek for higher places to climb, When in their heart, It is where the climb always continues.

I keep living as a committed Christian, even on the days when I don't feel like one. Even on the days when the agnostic side of the faith spectrum looks pretty inviting, even on the days when doubt takes hold and shakes me to the core, I keep moving. I keep living as if the sun will rise, as if I'll survive the waters of baptism, as if Jesus will indeed carry me safely across the falls.

But Jesus is stubbornly, ferociously committed to his church. ... he'll be there. That's the batch of people through whom he is redeeming the world, impossible as that seems.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

It was more like an encounter with grace. Tita faced crushing poverty without being crushed. As a reporter in the States, I had tried to understand what kept people from seizing opportunity in a society of plenty. As a reporter in Leveriza, I tried to understand how people seized opportunity where it scarcely existed.