Quotes About Persistence

It was like stepping barefoot on a sharp bit of broken glass. She pulled the glass out and ran on, but the pain remained.

perhaps that's what life is, getting it wrong and going on, and still believing, always believing.

How do you keep hold of a dream like that?" "With both hands.

I kept an image of you in my mind through all of it.

The trip from Portland to New York City was like climbing Mount Everest without oxygen. It went on and on, and by the time you reached your destination, there was no sensation left in your extremities.

She had tried to be loved by him; more important, she had tried to keep loving him, but in the end, one was as impossible as the other.

Hope is a coin I carry: an American penny, given to me by a man I came to love. There were times in my journey when I felt as if that penny and the hope it represented were the only things that kept me going.

A warrior believes in an end she can't see and fights for it.

There is only the fight to recover what has been lost And found and lost again and again: and now under conditions That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss. For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." —T. S. Eliot, from "East Coker

Women wrote their names on scraps of paper or cloth and shoved them through cracks in the carriage walls, hoping against hope to be remembered.

By the time she reached her floor, Ruby was wheezing so badly she sounded like Shelley Winters after her swim in The Poseidon Adventure, and she was practically that wet. Sweat slid down her forehead and caught on her eyelashes, blurring everything.

Elizabeth laughed. "No way. You'll have to talk to Dad about this yourself, but I'll tell you this, honey, it's dangerous to quit something because you think you're not good enough. That can be an ugly pattern that repeats itself throughout your life. Believe me, I know.

If you're going through hell, keep going. —WINSTON CHURCHILL

Beni b?rakma, demek istedi ama yapamad?. Bir daha olmazd?. Ä°nsanlara onu sevmeleri için yalvarmaktan çok yorulmuÅŸtu.

If you're going through hell, keep going. —WINSTON CHURCHILL May

Like her, they held on to the unproven hope/belief that more work might save them.

Don't stop believing until you have to, and certainly don't stop then.

Still, Isabelle and Gaëtan kept going. They walked all day

Somehow I keep going. If there's one thing I never do, it's stop.

You live, Loreda," she whispered. "And know Ã¢â'¬Â¦ every single second Ã¢â'¬Â¦ how much I loved you." Find your voice and use it Ã¢â'¬Â¦ take chances Ã¢â'¬Â¦ never give up.

God help anyone who tries to stop her.

A warrior believes in an end she can't see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to me. Elsa closed the journal and dressed quickly, then went to the room next door.

She would do it all again. And this wasn't the end. She had to remember that. Each day she lived there was a chance for salvation. She couldn't give up. She could never give up.

hard times don't last.