Quotes About Perseverance

they're all shitting themselves and dying on the path to the dock." A moan issued from the back of the house, followed by gastric sounds that almost shook the floorboards.

That's the hard part. The hope. You two gotta decide if you're up for the hope and the disappointment right there, because that's the hard part.

How resilient did someone have to be to have gone through all of that and still have a laugh that rang through the trees like bells, making them holy?

And I realized that it's not whether you beat God—it's what you have when the fight's over.

It's when we refuse to change in the face of upheaval that we fail.

HE LITERALLY had to make every damned out himself.

literally re-made the world around me to keep

But lo (loo?) and behold, it was. Malcolm pushed Owen all the way to the far wall.

For I have time for nothing But the endeavour to balance myself Upon a broken world.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

How do you teach hope?

Shadow vaulted from the car, and cleared the sprawled figure with one joyous leap. He found September's scent, and hop-scotched and bulldozed through snow so deep it scraped his belly. But the bloody paw prints left in his wake spelled a message of fear, hope, and determination that only good-dogs could read.

Through the years, I've never met an emotionally mature man or woman of God who has not traveled through a period of great suffering. With God as our touchstone, suffering builds hope and humility. I've learned that each human being must sooner or later decide if they want to be cool or deep. I'm putting my money on deep.4

Is there aught that thou canst not do if thou hast but the will?

What I'm trying to say is, you can't wait for somebody else to decide whether you get another chance. What if nobody ever does?

and Bessie for offering. But we've done just fine standing up for

We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

Living with uncertainty is like having a rock in your shoe. If you can't remove the rock, you have to figure out how to walk despite it. There is simply no other choice.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

I'm the walkingest girl around. I like to work at it — really get my heart pounding.

You have to risk failure to succeed. The important thing is not to make one single mistake that will jeopardize the future.

The will to live, gives you the strength to surpass your own to achieve life

I don't know why so many of our ideals were stamped out like cigarette butts when we believed in them so furiously. Perhaps we were not furious enough.