Quotes About Perseverance

It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.

Cope or die.

I had expected the well to be full for some reason. Not that it had ever been before. I kept looking for signs of water in the dark insides. I heard my bucket clank as it hit Against the walls that held nothing. I look at the bucket that came up empty And made a decision that changed my life. I will keep my bucket and find another well.

Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering.

Sometimes just getting up in the morning and standing at the gate can bring the gate down.

You need a negative charge and a positive one to get something moving. We've got the negative; we're going to find the positive if it kills us.

Teenagers are like bees at night, I think. We don't like waking up and we don't always get with the program immediately, but once we figure out our mission, we'll see it through.

Now I see that it isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference.

I flopped on the overstuffed kitchen couch and watched him go. I wondered what would happen to all his films and photographs in the upstairs closet - the documentaries on homelessness and drug addiction, the funny short subjects, the half-finished romantic comedy, the boxes of slice-of-life photographs that spoke volumes about the human condition. I wondered how you stop caring about what you've ached over, sweated over. (Thwonk)

Let me tell you something about sad days. They're just part of life, but the best thing you can do on the happy days or on the sad ones is to do what you do best with everything you've got.

I'll tell you something about tough things. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find the way through. On the Food Network they have these shows where cooks have to put a meal together with all these weird ingredients. That's a lot like my life-dealing with things you wouldn't think ever go together. But a good cook can make the best meal out of the craziest combinations.

I watched that plant in the office every day. Watered it; misted it. I loved thinking about it like G.T. said, but part of me was worried the tree surgery wouldn't take. Something would go wrong and then I"d be stuck with a metaphor that couldn't go the distance.

You're going to fall down in this life—everybody dies. But you be the kind of person who doesn't stay down for long. Get back on your feet and keep going no matter what.

He shouted out like a drill sergeant, " Men, are we having fun yet? "No sir!" the vets cried out. " Men , are we going to fight like soldiers or fools?" The vets looked at one another, grinned. "Like fools, sir!" Everyone laughed. Luger dropped his cup again, but this time he kicked it hard across the room. " I can still kick! And everyone in rehab worked a little harder.

WELCOME HOME, FOLKS WE'RE GOING TO MAKE IT

I don't expect life to be easy. It hasn't been yet and I'm not holding out for smooth sailing in the future. Not everyone likes this philosophy, but it makes sense to me because when life hits the skids, I don't have to regroup as much as the people who walk around in a cloud like the world owes them a joyful existence.

My favorite star fact is: stars die but can keep on glowing. I like stubbornness in a star.

When you're going through a tough spell, it's easy to think that's all your life is about. You forget the good things, forget the quiet places. But they're always inside of us and we can pull them up when we need to set ourselves right.

You don't become a real sailor until you sail in a storm.

Remember, it's not that you fall; it's what you do next that counts.

She didn't wallow in problems or reveal self-doubt.

As [Sonia] Sotomayor wrote in her autobiography, once she set herself on the path of a legal career, 'I saw no reason to stint on ambition.

We emerge into the light not by denying our pain, but by walking out through it.

Patience is peace. Learning to be patient is a continual practice that takes years to ripen. Let it unfold, day by day, and be gentle with yourself in the learning.