Quotes About Perseverance

Prepared to fly, even if she has to loose her legs to do it

A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee.

No, you're right. I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die, Felicity barks. If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.

We are made by what we are asked to bear, Ling Chan

People will disappoint you, Gemma. The question to ask is whether you can learn to live with the disappointment and move on.

Corro porque puedo, porque debo. Porque quiero ver hasta dónde puedo llegar antes de tener que parar.

But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you." I

Sorry for all the pain and loneliness and disappointment. But there is this, too.

Haven't you been hurt?" Miss Lillian asked. Theta thought of Roy's fists. Mrs. Bowers's cold cruelty. Even the first wound of abandonment. "Yes." "And here you still are. No. The question is this: Haven't you been hurt enough?

Little Warrior: You can do this. I believe you can.

The Diviners must stand, or all shall fall.

People will disappoint you. The question to ask is whether you can learn to live with the disappointment and move on.

Feels like we've been in training for the wrong pageant," Nicole said with a sigh.

It reminds us that even in the midst of chaos and terror, there is the capacity for change.

Before the devil breaks you, first he will make you love him.

The light is so bright it hurts my eyes. But I don't dare close them. I won't. Instead, I try to adjust to the dawn, letting the tears fall where they may, because it is morning; it is morning, and there is so much to see.

There was rarely a moment when she wasn't having to work around the limitations of her body. Discomfort was a daily fact of life. Sometimes the ache was a nuisance. Other times, it was a storm that clawed and pulled and made it hard to concentrate on anything else. Mostly, Ling resented pain because it kept her from thinking, and thinking was what Ling did best.

Today is a hard day. Sometimes, there are hard days. Days stretched so tight with pain that they seem as if they can allow no room for hope.

I am the skunk killer.

Qwilleran drove with clenched jaw, enduring the stares and glares of motorists who passed him, their fretful horn-honking and hostile tailgating.

I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.

So we learned the dance that cripples the human spirit, step by step by step, we who were white and we who were colored, day by day, hour by hour, year by year until the movements were reflexes and made for the rest of our life without thinking.

A woman who dared to live as an overt homosexual in such unwelcoming times might well have an ego of impressive strength and health that permitted her it know her own mind and to be true to her conception of herself.

God is there to give us strength for every hill we have to climb.