Quotes About Perseverance

Bad things are always going to happen," my father had told me in his last year. "There's no way to avoid that. Our control comes in how we face them. Do we let them crush us, making us despondent? Do we face them unflinchingly and endure the pain? Do we outsmart them?

Roza." His voice had the same wonderful lowness, the same accent...it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson:Don't hesitate." I just barely saw his fist striking out toward my head...and then I saw nothing at all.

He thought there was no hope for him. Me? I couldn't imagine a world without hope.

Seth and I had broken up twice and while I usually accepted that he had moved on, I knew that I would love him forever. For me, forever was a serious matter" - Georgina about

He was hiding from his problems in a bottle, something that went against every piece of my nature. Me? I couldn?t let my problems win without a fight.

And I figured you'd drive a four-hour round-trip before giving up your car to someone else

You can't," I murmured, swallowing the tears back with great effort. "You can't keep saving me, can't keep trying to. It's too late." "No," he said. His heart was in his eyes, and it was ripping mine apart. "Not for you. Never.

It won't be that simple though, will it?' She sounded wise beyond her years. 'Things are going to get worse before they get better, aren't they?

Sometimes the greatest tests of our strenght are situations that don´t seem so obviously dangerous. Sometimes surviving is the hardest thing of all.

Sí, pero nosotros estamos vivos, Rose. No podemos dejar de vivir porque otras personas estén muertas

Death. Starvation. Blindness. Another grim day in our village.

I lifted the lid and found a piece of bread and some water—and a rat that quickly darted off the tray. Talk about adding insult to injury.

My best friend. I had my best friend back. If I had her, I could recover from what had happened in Siberia. I could go on with my life.

Bad things are always going to happen. There's no way to avoid that. Our control comes in how we face them. Do we let them crush us, making us despondent? Do we face the unflinchingly and endure the pain? Do we outsmart them?

Sometimes it takes more courage to know when to retreat than to keep fighting.

Truly," remarked Nandi as we entered a darkened tunnel, "it is amazing that you have not died yet, mistress." "Well, hang in there. The night is young.

Throughout my training we always had a mantra; They come first. If I had really and truly screwed up my future, I'd have a new mantra; A comes first. The B, C, D...

This is how we must always be—strong and resilient, no matter what's around us.

If you want the nightmares to go away, you have to live. That's the only way.

I kept wanting to sit and rest, to curl up in a ball and think of nothing else. No, no, no. The light. I had to go toward the light. That almost made me laugh out loud. It was funny, really. Like I was someone having a near-death experience. Then I did laugh. This whole night had been full of near-death experiences.

Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want. Act now while you can actually stop it from being a disaster.

I fight everyday to not let the past overtake me. Sometimes I win, sometimes it does.

Would've been here sooner," growled Wolfe, calling the pack off with a quick gesture. "But that bitch tied me up. Had to wait for the dogs to gnaw through my ropes.

We're not doing anything until I find my sister,' I say