Quotes About Perseverance

I doubted God last Sunday said Rilla but I don't doubt Him today. Evil cannot win. Spirit is on our side and it is bound to outlast flesh.

It does people good to have to do things they don't like...in moderation.

There's always a piece of unfinished work left,' said Mrs. Lynde, with tears in her eyes. 'But I supposed there's always some one to finish it.

Marilla, what if I fail!' 'You'll hardly fail completely in one day and there's plenty more days coming,' said Marilla.

I can always get through to-day very nicely. It's to-morrow I can't live through

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good - Anne Shirley

When we have to do a thing...we can do it.

Leslie, after her first anguish was over, found it possible to go on with life after all, as most of us do, no matter what our particular form of torment has been. It is even possible that she enjoyed moments of it, when she was one of the gay circle in the little house of dreams.

She] may be an acquired taste with some folks; but I didn't keep on eating bananas because I was told I'd learn to like them if I did.

At life's banquet of success I may not be the guest of honor, but I'll be among those present.

Everything that's worth having is some trouble - Anne Shirley

Ye've only got to live one day at a time, darlint. One can always be living just one more day.

help me most. I know you'll be as plucky and patient as you have shown yourself to be this past year—I'm not afraid for you. I know that no matter what happens, you'll be Rilla-my-Rilla—no matter what happens. Rilla repressed

There are--plenty--without you. That isn't the point, Rilla-my-Rilla. I'm going for my own sake--to save my soul alive. It will shrink to something small and mean and lifeless if I don't go. That would be worse than blindness or mutilation or any of the things I've feared.

People who haven't natural gumption never learn, retorted Aunt Jamesina, neither in college nor life. If they live to be a hundred they really don't know anything more than when they were born.

All your life Davy, you'll find yourself doing things you don't want to do - Anne Shirley

I am of one mind with the Irishman who said you could get used to anything, even to being hanged!

Well, I should like to see you go to college, Anne, but if you never do, don't grow discontented about it. We make our own lives wherever we are, after all... college can only help us do it more easily.

But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice. I don't know as that's much benefit when you're always making new ones. Oh, don't you see, Marilla? There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.

No, I've neither wife nor progeny, Miss Plum. I've often tried to get married, but something always prevented. Sometimes everyone was willing but the girl herself. Sometimes nobody was willing.

I believe in a girl being fitted to earn her own living whether she ever has to or not. You'll

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There's a kind of failure that's the best success