Quotes About Perseverance

He had done hard work all his life and was ready to stop, but he couldn't stop.

recent experience had shown him that men had to use what hope they could muster, to stay alive.

Jake would have done better to let them hang him," he said. "You know how he suffers when he has to work.

He was embarked, at the time, on a book sighing—I insist, sighing, not signing, though he's pretty adept at that too.

things which seemed impossible often weren't. They only became so if one thought about them too much so that fear took over.

soon he would have to learn to call his depression happiness in order to endure it.

Once Louis Wu had sworn to live forever.

travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Hindmost? A head turned back. Sometimes there's no point in giving up.

Have at you, Builders! You can't keep a science-fiction writer in Hell!

It isn't the day you finally push the boulder up the hill and it stays. (Then what would you do?)

If you don't like wind," Grandfather replied, "you don't like Montana. Because it blows here 360 days a year. Better get used to it.

YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE WORST TO GET TO THE BEST

Sometimes your passion takes work and you shouldn't give up on it just because it isn't easy... [Owen Michaels, as quoted by daughter Bailey]

It's never about someone else the moment you realize it is up to you to get yourself to a better place. It's only about figuring out how to get there.

The calm can't last, not if you're really living. if you're living fully, the storms coming to get you.

When you're willing to do the work, it's amazing what can be saved.

If things were eventually going to work out, did it matter how you got there? Didn't it ultimately just matter that you got the ending you wanted?

only knows that the important part is to decide to stay. Again and again. And, on the days you can't, to resist deciding anything else.

That is love, baby girl. Working hard when we don't feel like it.

There were certain things that you hit from different angles, but you never gave up on.

You did the work that was needed, wherever that work took you.

Watching my grandfather work taught me that not everything was fluid. There were certain things that you hit from different angles, but you never gave up on. You did the work that was needed, wherever that work took you. [Hannah Hall]

one way or another, this is the deal we all sign when we love someone. For better or worse. It's the deal we have to sign again and again to keep that love. We don't turn away from the parts of someone we don't want to see. However quickly or long it takes to see them. We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story.