Quotes About Perseverance

We are all a little bit broken, she tells me (the reason she doesn't sleep at night?), but we all work on fixing ourselves.

It's true that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. But no one says that strength doesn't come at a price.

Humans are interesting, however. Our ability to adapt is truly impressive. Our rage against our own suffering. Our relentless need to find a way out, to do something, anything, to advance our lot in life.

They have to get through each day, which makes truth a fickle companion.

I'd clawed my way back to the land of the living. Because of Vero. She needed me.

So let's catch this son of a bitch, so I can return to my classes, and finish up my degree. Then I'll join law enforcement, neglect my own family, and the cycle will be complete.

Then we did the best we could, all we could. He was the enemy, Kimberly. He took their lives. And God help both of us, but sometimes the enemy is simply that good.

She walked the edge of the anxiety attack, feeling the shakes and knowing that she either found solid footing now or plunged into the abyss.

The gift of gratitude, we say in AA. It took me a long time to find it, and I'm still not the best at remembering it, but every now and then, I almost understand.

when she'd feared they hadn't rescued a woman after all, but only a shell of one.

Thank you," I say, and I mean it. Ten days, ten months, ten years, you never know when the next craving is going to hit, and in those moments, a single connection can make all the difference.

approximately

Lisa Gardner

go one of two ways—an underachieving drunk or an overachieving workaholic. Since

excavated from

My wife and I are raising a small child while juggling two careers. This isn't the honeymoon phase. This is work.

I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

I couldn't quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

Society goes on and on and on. It is the same with ideas.

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.