Quotes About Perseverance

Never deny your scars. Wear them proudly for they attest to your immense courage and strength.

It's difficult to stop trying with the one you love. You always hope that this next time might work, might change everything for the better.

Yet little by little, I was also becoming the girl who was learning to live with this, all of it, letting it weave together with everything else, the good and the bad, as life moved forward, because that's what life did, regardless of whether we were ready for it or not.

Better a spirit that does not quite fit in this world than one that is broken.

Or, in truth, eventually, though I still noticed, the callouses on my spirit prevented wounds (p.75).

All you need is stones... If you have enough stones and the water is shallow enough, you can build a city up through the waves.

She slid a little until she was sagging against the open doorframe

Like life isn't hard enough, mate. Don't borrow more sorrow.

Fighting with a woman who has set her mind on something is harder than fighting a battalion of armed men The woman is more strategic mentally

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

Donna VanLiere's "A Christmas Blessing" "Don't ever take your EYES off the FINISH line. If you take your eyes off the GOAL, you'll never make it to the END.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

Donna Woolfolk Cross

There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.

But she had known, better than anyone else, what demons he had faced, had known how hard he had fought to free himself from them. That he had lost the fight in the end made the struggle no less honorable.

This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.

The bud of a rose grows in darkness. It knows nothing of the sun, yet it pushes at the darkness that confines it until at last the walls give way and the rose bursts forth, spreading its petals into the light. I love him.

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.

It is better to have bounced and bumped than never to have bounced at all.

Then it dawned on him: these people were hanging around to see the man who was taking on the challenge of breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball. That settled it—he wouldn't quit the team. He couldn't quit the team.

Veni, vidi, flevi. I came. I saw. I cried.

You've traveled this far on the back of every mistake, ridden in dark-eyed and morose but calm as a house after the TV set has been pitched out the upstairs window. (from "Antilamentation")

as if nothing had happened— as if everything mattered—What else could I do?