Quotes About Perseverance

In physics: It's called simultaneity. In music: rhythm. In your life: epic failure.

You have to grow about 800 grapes to get just one bottle of wine. If that isn't an argument to finish the bottle, I don't know what is.

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.

In 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.

every minute. You forget it, and then you remember it again. And you see it with a stark quality: This is what is required of you now, just to get along.

I'd learned early on that people stay away if they think you're struggling. They don't want the stink to fall on them too.

That's the terrible thing about a tragedy. It isn't with you every minute. You forget it, and then you remember it again. And you see it with a stark quality: This is what is required of you now, just to get along.

the terrible thing about a tragedy. It isn't with you every minute. You forget it, and then you remember it again. And you see it with a stark quality: This is what is required of you now, just to get along.

Sometimes your passion takes work and you shouldn't give up on it just because it isn't easy…

Finn and Bobby are fighting over the wrong thing. But at least they're fighting." "And how is that good?" "Because that's the only way to get somewhere better." He shrugged. "If you fight, you work it out. If you don't fight, you move into your own corners, and nothing gets decided there.

He was going to build his life here, right here, in the name of love and honor and whatever else he was feeling, even if he couldn't name up for what it was: exhaustion.

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

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that! —LEWIS CARROLL

Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

To figure out how to be brave enough to find the life I wanted. To hold it, once it was found.

We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story.

I know it sounds crazy. How can someone figure out how to stay by going again? " I said, trying to explain it. "But going again is the only way I've ever found what I'm looking for.

I looked at Finn, tempted to explain what had just happened, Bobby moving toward him, though I kept my mouth shut, in favor of trusting what I had learned this weekend, in the face of everything falling apart, and maybe coming together in a greater way than I could have hoped for. You couldn't always work so hard to fix it. Even if things didn't always go the way they should, sometimes they went exactly where they needed to -Georgia

Be careful what you give up...because eventually, you get it back any way you can.

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

Not if she hasn't succeeded in convincing them that she is behind them, no matter what.

She's been told that it takes ten years to figure out what you're doing. Ten years. She takes a breath, smiles. She's ready to get started. With the beginning of it. Her life.

No one else has a clue what you're doing, but at the end of the day, you get to where you want to go.

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.