Quotes About Perseverance

Like me!" I said. "I have to work hard, too. Why, I haven't thrown manure in over two months!

Papa always said you make your own luck. And maybe you do.

Jennifer L. Holm

Kaarlo, that gold rush is for fools with no sense, can't you see that we're barely making ends meet, isn't it enough that there's a new baby to feed you might as well just shoot your poor mother it'll be the same thug as letting her lose a son to some foolishness." "Do you think Pappa will send Grandmother away? I wish per to Wilbert. Nah, he whispers back, she's stuck here like a cow in the tidelands.

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14, I know I've never considered failure.

It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

I was sad. I was heartbroken. I was scared. But it was only through adversity that I found my saving graces. Sometimes they came from unexpected sources—a song, a challenge, or a friend. It was my responsibility to make the most of them, apply them to my life, act on them, and rise to the occasion.

Sometimes it's the toughest moments that you learn the most about yourself, and the more you know yourself, the less you are willing to give away.

If you can't laugh, you won't make it.

Sometimes, there aren't any good choices. Sometimes, making the right one is hard... It's funny, but when you think about it, we're all broken. That's what life does. It knocks you down and breaks you and you either get back up again, or you don't. You either do things on your terms, or you don't. You let the bad things win, or you don't." "You either let it break you, or you don't.

Where are you going?" I asked him. After everything it has taken to get to this point, he couldn't just walk away. "To hell, eventually," Jameson answered. "Probably to the wine cellar, for now.

When the odds are bad, you change the rules.

Nothing hurts you unless you let it.

I don't like running away," Michael; brought his eyes from the floor to mine. "I don't run, I don't hide, I don't cower, I don't beg, Cassie, because running and hiding and begging doesn't work. It never works.

Don't think this means I'm giving up. There's more than one way to decapitate a hellhound, and as it so happens, I know them all.

This however, wasn't an ideal world, and no matter how hard I tried to think of an answer, I had nothing.

Little-known fact about cheerleaders: They keep schedules that would make grown marines cry.

Hawthornes aren't supposed to break, his voice whispered in my memory. Especially me.

Do you know what I thought when you tried to kill me? The first time? I thought, How can somebody want me dead when no one knows I'm alive?

If one thing was perfectly, crystalline clear, it was that I could take care of myself. I just kept coming and coming and coming. I was what I was.

A few months ago, she'd gotten a tattoo, a single word inked from wrist bone to wrist bone, just under the heel of her hand. SURVIVOR.

We just hadn't figured on Fighting life.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes