Quotes About Perseverance

He wanted to break her? She couldn't be broken. She wouldn't ALLOW herself to be broken.

Some things were worth fighting for, but sometimes the fight was internal.

Being a parent doesn't get any easier, ... it just gets hard in a different way.

nothing ever happens quickly (except when it does). Nothing is ever, ever easy (except when it is). And, most of all, nothing ever goes perfectly according to plan (except in the movies).

you're the gallagher girl. figure it out.- zach

A Gallagher Girl's real grades don't come in pass or fail—they're measured in life or death.

Pain is always new to the sufferer, but loses its originality for those around him. Everyone will get used to it except me.

one needn't be born into a beautiful life in order to have one.

Hatred bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Each morning the light came through the slats of the shutters in ripples, and as it washed towards the inhabitants of the Casa Luna it smoothed away memories of the past, It was for this that they had endured long hours in the grey English winter or freezing American climes, for this that they had worked and planned and worked extra hours/ The horrible feelings of stress, tension, anger and frustration that coursed through their veins every day almost unnoticed began to fade.

If you read fairy-tales carefully, you'll notice they are mostly about people who aren't heroes. They don't have special powers, or gifts. Often they are despised as stupid. They are bullied, beaten up, robbed, starved. But they find they are stronger than their misfortunes.

Was it too late? Could he still gather strength, just throw himself at something, if only to feel that velocity again? What was there to lose, when you gave up on figuring it out…or worse, when you saw that there was no figuring it out?

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

To live is to be among men and to be among men is to struggle. (From Jose Rizal's letter to his nephew Alfredo or Freding)

A Man having found a Lion in his path undertook to subdue him by the power of the human eye; and near by was a Rattlesnake engaged in fascinating a small bird. How are you getting on, brother? the Man called out to the other reptile, without removing his eyes from those of the Lion.

Like a plant that has struck its root into some poisonous mineral, my poor uncle was dying slowly upward.

Poverty and zeal are an upper and a nether millstone.  It is dangerous to make a third in that kind of sandwich.

PATIENCE, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.

PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.

LITIGANT, n. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. LITIGATION, n. A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

RESOLUTE, adj. Obstinate in a course that we approve.

Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

Runners don't quit. We fade; we hit the wall; we're sometimes reduced to a walk. But we keep on.

Every moment of every day, she had fought to keep his face out of her mind, and his voice out of her head, had fought not to hear him say, Just relax, luv. It's all right.