Quotes About Perseverance

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

African Americans at Ford had to choose between giving up their good industrial jobs, moving to apartments in a segregated neighborhood of San Jose, or enduring lengthy commutes between North Richmond and Milpitas. Frank Stevenson bought a van, recruited eight others to share the costs, and made the drive daily for the next twenty years until he retired. The trip took more than an hour each way.

My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired.

There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.

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The world champion rider in any event was at one time a beginner

From our own strength we cannot bear the least trouble, but by the Spirit's assistance we can bear the greatest.

The heroic deeds of those great worthies do not comfort the church so much as their falls and bruises do.

Discouragements, then, must come from ourselves and Satan, who laboureth to fasten on us a loathing of duty.

Two things trouble the peace of Christians very much (1), their weaknesses hanging upon them, and (2) fear of holding out for time to come.

Discouragements, then, must come from ourselves and from Satan, who labors to fasten on us a loathing of duty.

I clawed my way into the light but the light is just as scary. I'd rather quit. I'd rather be sad. It's too much work.

You'd break your heart to make it bigger, so why not crack your skull when the mind swells.

Cut me open and the light streams out. Stitch me up and the light keeps streaming out between the stitches

I will come back from the dead for you.

He knows that when you snap a mast it's time to get a set of oars or learn how to breathe underwater. Rely on one thing too long and when it disappears and you have nothing–well, that's just bad planning. It's embarrassing, to think it could never happen. It happens.

People get hurt here. People fall down and stay down and I don't like the way the song goes.

Every morning another chapter where the hero shifts from one foot to the other.

I don't think I can take this much longer.

I try, I do. I try and try. A happy ending?

A stone on the path means the tea's not ready, a stone in the hand means somebody's angry, the stone inside you still hasn't hit bottom.

pressed into the gravel, pressed into the dirt, pressing against each other in an effort to make the minutes stop—

People fall down and stay down

and they're trying to drive you into the ground, to see if anything walks away.