Quotes About Perseverance

Yes, I said to myself, there are things I will never be able to do again. I don't like that and may even hate it, but that doesn't change the way things are. The sooner I make peace with that fact and accept the way things are, the sooner I'll be able to live in peace and enjoy my new normalcy.

When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God.

God had chosen to keep me alive. Even in my worst moments of depression and self-pity, I never forgot that. Christy

Most of the time when people have that if-you-can-do-it attitude, I nod, acknowledge what they're saying, and add, "I'm just doing the best I can." And really, that's all I did during the worst days. Sometimes "the best I can" was nothing but to endure. Even when I struggled with depression, it was still the best I could do.

When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God. Our chains will fall from us.

Nines must resist the urge to escape into "premature Buddhahood"... and away from the mundane world. They must remember that "the only way out is through.

Proverò e riproverò. Non mi darò mai per vinto. Guarda laggiù, sulla brughiera. C'è un altro presagio. Lo terrò a mente. C'è sempre un altro arcobaleno.

La vita è piena di lavori duri e ci saranno sempre dei furbi pronti a imbrogliarmi. Be', sarò più duro dei duri e più furbo dei furbi... e farò quadrare i miei conti.

Success is not forever, and failure's not fatal.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.

Success is not forever and failure isn't fatal.

The ultimate goal is victory. And if you refuse to work as hard as you possibly can toward that aim, or if you do anything that keeps you from achieving that goal, then you are just cheating yourself.

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

In his mind's eye, though, he sees— —Taliban moving like scorpions across a similar landscape his own caravan blown to shit blood streaming from buddies Now I'm one of them He sights in again. No time for Lack of PTSD He only hopes that Gentle Ben Increase-the-Peace Ben is one of them, too, now. Now, Ben. Find your inner Taliban.

Step by motherfucking step. Our ends know our beginnings but the reverse isn't true.

He became his own blues song, a Tom Waits loser, a Kerouac saint, a Springsteen hero under the lights of the American highway and the neon glow of the American strip. A fugitive, a sharecropper, a hobo, a cowboy who knows that he's running out of prairie but rides anyway because there's nothing left but to ride.

Life is trying to kill us," she says. Life, Malone thinks, is trying to kill everyone. And it always succeeds. Sometimes before you die.

He tells his guys, you change the oil in a Nissan, you just can't kill it. You'll die before that car will.

Rhode Island likes things difficult, hard to find. The other unofficial state motto—"If you were supposed to know, you'd know.

But the past is a dogged pursuer, a pack of wolves relentlessly running you down. Maybe it's better to turn and face it.

Everyone says what they're supposed to, the usual clichés like "She's a fighter." Yeah, Danny thinks. There are two fighters in any fight, and one of them loses.

The fan wheezes in its losing battle against the heat. But it's trying, Art thinks. It's fighting the good fight.

it isn't so much what you can dish out as what you can take.