Quotes About Perseverance

At the moment, she felt like she couldn't possibly be surprised . . . and she knew from experience that feeling that way was usually when the universe decided to shake things up a little more, to try and find out what a person was created from, clay or sand, adapt or crumble. As

What was it that Nog was always quoting, one of Vic Fontaine's colloquialisms . . . in for the penny, in for the pound? Ro

People who never cried were the weakest of all.

Because in this life everything, absolutely everything, is either a challenge or a reward

Who dares, wins," he muttered to himself. "Or gets royally banged about if things go south.

pedal cars, so it went quickly. I was at my Order?s new chapter house on our mission farm at Drumheller, and I carried it on snowshoes and skis over the mountain passes and down to Barony Vernon in the Okanogan country. Then by horse and rail to the Columbia and Portland. I came all the way myself rather than handing

The story never ends, but our part in the tale does, for a while, and I'm in the mood for some happy-ever-aftering! We earned it, as the Gods themselves know!

Not a lad anymore; old flesh doesn't heal like young. Learn to like it; when you're hurting, you're not dead.

No one is born to courage, Juliet. Courage is a habit you develop after cowardice has gotten you nothing.

There are so many people, and they are so beautiful and hopeful. And they too are covered in holes. They each carry a bucket. And in each bucket is a hole. This is the song we're in.

Rouse thee, my fainting soul, and play the man; And through such waning span Of life and thought as still has to be trod, Prepare to meet thy God. And while the storm of that bewilderment Is for a season spent, And, ere afresh the ruin on me fall, Use well the interval.

And I take with joy whatever Now besets me, pain or fear, And with a strong will I sever All the ties which bind me here.

Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

I keep on making myself little goals, but every time I achieve one of them. I'm forced to face up to the fact that nothing has changed. The thing that is still wrong and always will be. But that's too difficult to face, so all I can do is to pick another goal and start again.

Is love like a mineral, to be chipped away with every new problem or deficiency?

the only one of them not to fall on their ass

Oh sometimes it does, Carter

But shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.

Do not contemplate what lies beyond failure while you are still trying to succeed.

He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.

I must finish what I've started, even if, inevitably, what I finish turns out not to be what I began.

But sixteen years without optimism had taken a heavy toll;

She says, trying uselessly to console me: 'What are you so long for in your face? Everybody forgets some small things, all the time!' But if small things go, will large things be close behind?