Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bethany Hamilton

When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me.

Bede Griffiths

Perseverance is the essential requirement in the practice of yoga. It has to be done day by day, week by week, year by year, until the mind is brought to the 'still point' where it is open to the grace of God.

Ray Wilson

He taught me a lot about perseverance. Like, put that smile on and see where it takes you.

David Seabury

A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. 'By getting up every time I fell down,' he answered.

David S. Rose

The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness... but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.

David Sarnoff

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

Carolina Herrera

In fashion, you have to have perseverance. You have to do it again and again, but it's something that comes out of my heart, and I love it.

Charles Caleb Colton

The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.

Ashton Kutcher

It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.

Austin O'Malley

There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.

Diana Gabaldon

Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.

Anthony Jeselnik

It's always difficult when someone close to you passes away. But it's really tough when they're on top of you.

Elif Safak

While the parts change, the whole always remains the same. For every thief who departs this world, a new one is born. And every decent person who passes away is replaced by a new one. In this way not only does nothing remain the same but also nothing ever really changes.

J. M. Coetzee

Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark or Switzerland, to prove us wrong.

Howard Rheingold

Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.

Henry Miller

One thing is certain, that when you die and are resurrected you belong to the earth and whatever is of the earth is yours inalienably. You become an anomaly of nature, a being without shadow; you will never die again but only pass away like the phenomena about you.

Jeff Foxworthy

It's sad when you see somebody that talented that passes away and doesn't have to.

Cecelia Ahern

Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we’re looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we can do is follow

Mike Owens

I wrote 'white, back of wing.' It was unusual enough that I wrote it down.

David Hockney

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

Charles Bukowski

There's nothing unusual about love.

Bobby Farrelly

In the world of comedy, having a partner is not the most unusual thing.

Mark Grossman

It is kind of an unusual thing to see happen.

Dan Hill

My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.

E. M. Forster

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

Deepak Chopra

Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections that surprise you because you aren't used to seeing life except in fragments. Now it is beginning to piece itself together.