Quotes About Perseverance

Time as hunger. Time passing and gazing. Time as perseverance. Mountain time. Time as paper folded to look like a mountain. Time compared to the wild fantastic silence of stars.

I am someone who did not die when I should have died.

MEGARA Wait for worse? You love the light so much? AMPHITRYON I do, I love its hopes.

Seguir siendo humano es romper un impedimento. Quiérelo si eres capaz. Quiérelo si te atreves.

I'm someone who didn't die when I should have died.

As a sweet apple turns red on a high branch, high on the highest branch and the applepickers forgot— well, no they didn't forget—were not able to reach

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

But of course if we knew what awaited—the losses and disappointments and grief that are inevitable, the unthinkable things we will prove capable of—the knowledge would paralyze us. The

A funny thing happens when the world turns, as it turned for us on the night we burned the British embassy down. You wake up the next morning and carry on.

Professionally, sexually. In those days, when a woman hit thirty she went home and shut the door. So it is to her great credit that my mother refused to lie down and die.

Do not sigh, do not weep!

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery

what she calls "Russian fatalism": "It comes from our history, from hundreds of years

I trust in God's unfailing love for ever and ever. PSALM 52:8

When my spirit grows faint within me, it is you who know my way. PSALM 142:3

Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. PHILIPPIANS 3:13 – 14

Wounding, at best, only temporarily releases pain.

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 1 PETER 1:6

So the wall was completed … in fifty-two days. When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and lost their self-confidence, because they realized that this work had been done with the help of our God. NEHEMIAH 6:15 – 16

Even if you run from the wounders, you can't outrun God.

The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights. HABAKKUK 3:19