Quotes About Perseverance

But life is never exactly perfect, as much as we might want it to be. We have to figure out how to find the joy, anyway.

a bend in the road is not the end, unless you fail to make the turn.

don't know how to navigate this," she whispered. "Like anything hard in life. You breathe through it for one minute at a time. That becomes ten minutes, then twenty, then an hour. And before you know it, you've made it through another day, then a week, then a month. And if you're lucky, very lucky, you have someone there to hold your hand and help you through.

Anytime someone is afraid but plows forward anyway, that's the very definition of courage." "It's hard to tell myself that in the midst of crippling self-doubt." "That's when you should believe it most of all.

You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you've got.

People make mistakes. You can either let it eat away at you from the inside until you're hollowed out and have nothing good left. Or you can learn to accept that none of us can change our past. All we can do is move forward and make something better out of the rest of our days.

Someone ought to glue his shoes to the floor to keep him where he

Nobody wants to have hard things happen to them. But I wouldn't have become the person I am without going through that time. It made me stronger, more kind, more compassionate.

The best things in life don't come from taking the easy path, do they?

Smuggling poems out of prison in the soles of mt shoes i'm way past finding salvation in the arms of a woman, I look out my window and see burning flowers and starving armies but when I look up into the night sky I see the souls of dead heroes

Life can be infernally complex,' he said.

I hate possibilities—God of God! I have lived on possibilities, and infernally near starved on them.

Perhaps they assumed that he would have a hard time putting her first. Perhaps they had not understood that for a long time she had come first with him, that for many years she had been his heart's home and his mind's anchor and that fighting to keep her alive was essential to preserving his own soul.

Successful people will always have more failure stories than success to tell.

To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful to have a terrific mind, but it's been my experience that having outstanding intelligence is a very small part of the total package that leads to success and happiness. Discipline, hard work, perserverance, and generosity of spirit are, in the final analysis, far more important.

It often seems that we live in a bottom line society, where the final score or final grade is all that matters. Exceptional children grow to understand that the journey is everything.

We teachers are all boxers. We get hit a lot. I've been knocked down so many times I'm often woozy. But I've learned something in...the classroom: all teachers, even the best ones, get knocked down. The difference between the best ones and the others is that the best ones always get up to answer the bell. May you always get up. It is a child ringing the bell, and he needs your help.

What you achieve, endures throughout time

Daniel Patrick Moynihan once quipped "If you want to build a great city, create a great university and wait 200 years."11

It's very hard to make money. I think people don't get that message.

A few broken bones won't matter; you are not made of bones but of your will power, wisdom and willingness to keep fighting.

No god can make you happy until you put some effort

When all hope is lost, don't you dare give in..look up with a grin,and just win..

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can't quite keep up with gravity.