Quotes About Perseverance

Failure is doing nothing about a problem that bothers us. If our efforts don't go as we hoped, we still learn and can take a new approach next time.

And she never has.

I've learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on. And sometimes you'll be the one to give the second chance to someone else.

The harder something is to acquire, the more satisfying it is when you finally find it.

If this could be repeated every day for a year, I would never budge from where I stood.

I've learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on.

I reach under Mongo, and my hand lands on something squishy. I grab hold of it, and pull out an orange bunny Peep from a long ago Easter. Even I wouldn't eat it now. The scary thing is, it still looks perfectly fine. Dusty, but fine. I think Dr. Grady was wrong. At the end of the world will be bacteria, cockroaches, and Peeps.

Randall balanced a large brown box under one arm while he chomped on a green apple held in his free hand. He grimaced with every bite. He'd

like a dog will be the day I hand in my badge.

Five years is a long time to wait. But if she could do all that when she was little, she must be able to do much more now. Maybe this time, she will find my answers. Maybe this time, she will get me home.

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Fake it till you make it?" "Um

he never gave his scars

her ankles, because they all knew that Fred needed to see Nim to make him as brave and strong as he could be.

She didn't know how she was going to save Selkie, or where they were going to end up, or how they were going

if the world had helped us from the beginning, we never would have reached this point. Some think that we're religious fundamentalists. But nobody forces me to fast during Ramadan.

Hopelessness is seeing someone else who has been there for eight months and hasn't been asked a single question and is just begging to be convicted and executed already.

We've accepted the fact that we need to make our dreams smaller if that's what it takes to keep dreaming.

I was arrested in my second year of medical school and spent five months in prison. I was home recovering when ISIS showed up.

Last year, they shelled the market on the holiday at the end of Ramadan. People left the market. Half an hour later, everyone returned and went back to buying and selling.

And I suppose in a way you have to hand it to the ex-East End orphan named Lily Shiel. Just what to hand her, I'd be hard put to say.

nearing the end of a long teaching career, knowing I am in many ways ordinary yet still striving to count myself heroic.

The highest "calling and election" is to do without opium and live through all our pain with conscious clear-eyed endurance.

The seeds of doubt grow like weeds when given enough sun. Enough water. Enough nurturing.