Quotes About Perseverance

Sometimes it takes a crisis for us to discover what we really can do when we have to," her uncle said. "You had to ride Sultan, so you did. Now you know how easy it is. It's as simple as that.

But I know that if I don't at least try, I'll stay the way I am till it kills me. Till I kill me, I mean. I never really accept that that's what I'm doing - I say it, but I don't believe it.

I keep on making what I can't do yet in order to learn to be able to do it.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures,

After all, we're in the midst of life—well then, we must fight a good fight—and we must become men. —Vincent to Theo, May 31, 1877

keep on making what I can't do yet in order to learn to be able to do it.

At Harvard, so the story goes, one of Carter's professors said that Black people had no history. Carter remembered his father's pride, his mother's courage, and Oliver's determination to learn. He remembered reading the newspaper. Carter spoke up. "No people lacked a history," he said. The professor challenged Carter to prove him wrong. For the rest of his life, Carter did just that.

To make things change, you need a strong heart.

How many times can your heat mend until it's broken beyond repair? --Deborah King

If you have a devil within you, don't hide him but put him in front of your wagon so that he will use up all his strength by pulling you forward.

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely. But you tried and you did not get home safely. You did not get home at all.

Freedom is never free. Anyone who has struggled to be free knows how much it costs.

It's hard to write and be open and let things in when life is tough, but to keep everything out means there's nothing to work with.

It was true that I had no idea how to endure being alive and everything that comes with it.

I can't stand THE DEPRESSED. It's like a job, it's the only thing they work hard at.

she had gone too far into the unhappiness of the world to start all over again.

By?am cielesno?ci?, pragnieniem, ??dz?, py?em, krwi?, sp?kanymi ustami, pokrytymi p?cherzami stopami, otartymi kolanami, st?uczonymi biodrami, lecz by?am te? szcz??liwa, ?e nie drzemi? na sofie pod kocem ze starcem u boku i dzieckiem na kolanach.

I wanted to die of shame but everyone insisted on keeping me alive. I had to live.

The writing life is mostly about stamina. To get to the finishing line requires the writing to become more interesting than everyday life...

The only way to fail is to not try.

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

After the storm the city lies becalmed. It is a sunny morning, still and cold. Branches litter the streets like broken limbs. People clear away the wreckage. They swarm around like ants whose anthill has been scuffed; how doggedly they rebuild their lives.

The measure of our success is how we cope with disappointment.