Quotes About Perseverance

I believe the second you feel you have triumphed or overcome something, anything—an abuse, an injury to the body or the mind, an addiction, a character flaw, a habit, a person—you have merely decided to

the best way to heal it is to admit it will always be there.

you just performed the improbable by doing the impossible.

Because you have to roll with the punches, the good and the bad. You have to keep moving forward. It's like the river - even after all the crazy things that have happened, the river's not running backwards anytime soon.

War stuttered, repeated its sentences, forgot its lessons, over and over.

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

that the majority of success in life is about showing up.

Far too often we lose patience with the process and quit too soon, missing out on what we could have gained.

Do not buy into the idea that you have to keep relocating to accomplish your dreams in life.

We're all capable of more, don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Keep chasing those dreams, through hard work you'll eventually catch them.

We learn, under occupation, that there's more rat in us than we knew.

This is not the end. This is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." All in Churchill's deep, rumbling, and fiercely inspiring voice.

Them as can't bend, like as not they break.

I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow Arthur Koestler's dictum: "Soak; and wait.

But what can we do?" said Susan. "Think, and hope," said Cadellin. "I would rather seek and find," said Uthecar.

It's not a job but a condition. (Alan Garner on writing)

to show that he kept watch and worked that the world would not be lost. And, as he sat, hope came.

Fear isn't a weakness. Anyone who's never been afraid is a fool.

Moving forward was scary. Sometimes you made mistakes. Sometimes you took the wrong path. And sometimes, even when you took the right path, things could go wrong. But Reshmina realized that she wanted—needed—to keep moving forward, no matter what.

There were some horrors you couldn't fight and couldn't change. The real courage was just in enduring them.

Remember: You are no one. You have no name. You do not speak, you do not look at them, you do not volunteer for anything. You work, bot not so hard they notice you. Gizela. Zytka. Your parents, Oskar and Mina. They are dead and gone now, Yanek, and we would grieve for them if we could. But we have only one purpose now: survive. Survive at all costs, Yanek. We cannot let these monsters tear us from the pages of the world.

A real coward would have run away and never looked back. Fear isn't a weakness. Anybody who's never been afraid is a fool.

Samira had been walking for hours. It was almost dawn—that strange time when it's still dark but the birds wake up and the forest comes to life with the scuttling of little animals. The air was sharp and cool, and dew glistened on the grass. Any minute now, the sun would peek up over the horizon, turning the blue-gray sky orange. And Samira would be too late. She was weary, but hope, fear, worry kept her moving.

Heaven help me, Hideki thought. I've gotten used to it.