Quotes About Perseverance

The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.

We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete...but you know that men are not put into this world to go the path of ease; they are put into this world to go the path of pain and struggle...We have given our lives to the enterprise, and that is richer and the moral is greater.

I have found one can never get anything in life that is worth while without fighting for it.

I would rather fail in a cause that would ultimately succeed, than succeed in a cause that would ultimately fail.

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

Showing up is 80 percent of life.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

At the opera in Milan with my daughter and me, Needleman leaned out of his box and fell into the orchestra pit. Too proud to admit it was a mistake, he attended the opera every night for a month and repeated it each time.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.

There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.

In Nichiren's own words, "A blue fly, if it clings to the tail of a thoroughbred horse, can travel ten thousand miles, and the green ivy that twines around

Today's problem is replaced by new prob lems in an unending procession. We seem barely to have a chance to catch our breath before new challenges confront us.

Ah fuck, he's going to gnaw my arm off; I'm losing a limb. I can't go through life with one arm. I mean, fuck, I'm already a hideous rodent with no game," he said, sniffling. "I'll be a wobbly, off-balanced dipshit who lost his arm to an ass. And not even the good type of ass. "Are you crying?" "No, no, I have sweat in my eyes," he explained as the donkey's tongue kept licking his face.

Le persone con cui attraversi gli inferi sono amici. Le persone con cui scampi agli inferi sono amici.

Ma voglio morire come un fottuto fuoco d'artificio, compare. Non ho scelto questa vita per poi spegnermi come un lumino, non ho fatto anni di galera per morire da coglione.

the words she penned are driven into the grain" from "The Oak Desk" by Wyatt Townley

Courage is being afraid and going ahead and trying anyway. One can still be afraid and still be courageous.

This was my way of life for 21 years: Highs so high I was a human F-16, and lows so low I didn't need a funeral because I'd already buried myself.

Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead end street is just a place to turn around.

it ain't as hard as picking cotton

You get freedom by letting your enemy know that you'll do anything to get your freedom; then you'll get it. It's the only way you'll get it.

Don't let anybody tell you anything about the odds are against you. If they draft you, they send you to Korea and make you face 800 million Chinese. If you can be brave over there, you can be brave right here. These odds aren't as great as those odds. And if you fight here, you will at least know what you're fighting for.

Trying their wings once more in hopeless flight: Blind moths against the wires of window screens. Anything. Anything for a fix of light. X. J. Kennedy, "Street Moths," The Lords of Misrule

Ya me cansé de esperar que me quieran, ahora nomás espero que me aguanten. Y si no que se jodan