Quotes About Perseverance

as if he's trying to tell you that there is some sort of shining star now buried deep inside you and he has to dig it out with a knife.

Tell me we'll never get used to it.

We can do anything. It's not because our hearts are large, they're not, it's what we struggle with

We've been driving all night. We've been driving a long time. We want to stop. We can't.

It's not always easy to push yourself, and that's why they invented mothers.

Some day this war is going to end...

Already today I hit you twice. Once I knocked the wind out of you, once I knocked the consciousness out of you. Here you are back the third time. You call that smart?

And that is how he would describe courage: pretending to be brave. Fearlessness is stupidity. Courage is not letting the fear defeat you.

Courage is not the absence of fear, he taught me. It's learning to overcome it.

Even after emerging from prison and becoming South Africa's first democratically elected president, he continued

After nineteen years, he still needed explanations from me. If being willing to speak at length into an unresponsive void isn't one of the cornerstones of a rich relationship and enduring love, what is?

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

Being a warrior doesn't mean winning or even succeeding. It means risking and failing and risking again, as long as you live.

the path of the warrior is lifelong, and that mastery is often simply staying on the path.

I spent every spare second available - evenings, weekends, lunch breaks - studying everything I could that would help me. But I told no one.

Richard Townshend Bickers

Richard Turner

Can you stand?" Waabooz asked. "Yes," Buffalo said. "Why?" "If you stand there calmly you won't sink any farther and we can work together to get you out of there." "Are you certain?" Buffalo asked. "I feel the bog pull at me even now." "I am not certain," Waabooz said. "But Trust does not require certainty.

Ils ont refusé de me laisser être juste un hockeyeur. Pour eux, je serais toujours un indien.

Beggary. It's not the sole

The change that comes our way will come in many forms. In sights that are mysterious to our eyes, in sounds that are grating on our ears, in ways of thinking that will crash like thunder in our hearts and minds. But we must learn to ride each one of these horses of change. It is what the future asks of us and our survival depends on it. That is the spirit teaching of the Horse.

They scooped out our insides, Saul. We're not responsible for that. We're not responsible for what happened to us. None of us are." Fred said. "But our healing—that's up to us. That's what saved me. Knowing it was my game." "Could be a long game," I said. "So what if it is?" he said. "Just keep your stick on the ice and your feet moving. Time will take care of itself.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

The person who would like to make his dreams come true must stay awake.