Quotes About Perseverance

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.

Poor woman, I suppose she led a dog's life, and it made her disagreeable, which she mistook for being strong.

Sometimes fear could be forgotten, but never for long.

You'll go far. How do I know? Because life is goosing you so hard you'll never stop climbing.

Nobody gets through life without a broken heart. The important thing is to break the heart so that when it mends it will be stronger than before.

Heroj modernog doba, to je ?ovek koji iz unutrašnje borbe izlazi kao pobednik.

But I can endure a surprising amount of midnight torment without being absent from class sharp at nine the next day. I suppose that marks me as something not quite up to the Byronic standard.

The gods destroy the heroes with a sudden blow, but they grind us mediocrities for weary, weary years.

For every ill beneath the sun, There is some remedy, or none Should there be one, resolve to find it; If not, submit, and never mind it. -Ancient West County wise saw or saying

Story, it turns out, is the assassin of despair.

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Thelonious had been born into extreme poverty. His mother and grandmother spent their lives scrubbing floors for a living, and his father, Thelonious, Sr., cobbled together work as an unskilled day laborer in the railroad town of Rocky Mount. His grandfathers had lived a life of debt peonage, share-cropping for ex-slave masters and surviving pretty much from meal to meal.

He walked as he'd learned to walk, with only a minimal limp, back straight, head held high in confidence rather than cockiness. He walked like a man who had learned to lean into God for whatever strenth he needed.

Untested faith was rarely strong. Deep, abiding faith was tempered through fire.

like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?

When you write your first novel you don't really know what you're doing. There may be writers out there who are brilliant, incisive and in control from their first 'Once upon a time'. I'm not one of them. Every once upon a time for me is another experience of white-water rafting in a leaky inner tube. And I have this theory that while the Story Council has its faults, it does have some idea that if books are going to get written, authors have to be able to write them.

All you did was sit there, he said. Why are you so tired? I sat very diligently, she said.

Robin McKinley

One keeps searching for ease, she did not say, and not finding it, till the memories of no-pain seem only like daydreams.

Mathin had taught her patience, and she had known all of her life how to be stubborn.

But their strength is the strength of numbers and of stubbornness and persistence; do not underestimate it.

Balthazar was disappointed by all the walking, but he was accustomed to such disappointment. -Hellhound

It is not so easy as running and not running.