Quotes About Perseverance

Just because I'd spent the last five years of my life dealing with diapers and dirty dishes didn't mean my brain had turned into Gerber Oatmeal & Banana Cereal.

Everything happens for a reason. Everything. The good, the bad, the indifferent. They all have a purpose. Never forget who you are. Never forget what you serve. And no matter what happens, keep your face turned to the light.

As far as Ahsoka Tano was concerned, the only thing worse than being up to her armpits in battle droids was waiting to find out just how long it would be before she was up to her armpits in battle droids.

May the Force spare me another victory like this.

You're not fine. You're losing." "From a certain point of view, possibly," said Obi-Wan. Then he smiled, a feral baring of teeth. "But I prefer to think of it as … not winning at the moment. So we go.

Space and time blurred and the void filled with explosions and shards and narrow misses and voices in the Force: his pilots, laughing and swearing and howling to their deaths. He laughed and swore and howled along with them, the silence unbearable. Kill, kill, and kill again, slaughter the starfighters, slaughter the Tuskens, every loss is the same loss, every pain springs from one source. Save Kothlis, save Coruscant, save Padmé. Save them all.

The tapestry of her life was dotted with threadbare spots, where grief or pain or loss had eaten through like hungry moths. But those faint traces, instead of detracting from the resplendent tones and rich hues of the intertwined threads, only intensified their splendor. It was a work of art created not with a needle but with duty, courage, and honor, sprinkled liberally with laughter and hope.

The patient bird breakfasts on the juiciest worm.

I've sweated and grunted and pushed myself until I thought it would be easier to give up and die. ' - Caroline

I wanted to be an artist, long time ago. But my hand was damaged, so I got into graphic design. Drawing faces was much easier with a mouse than a pen.

You don't have

dwelling on life's restrictions didn't do much for anyone's morale.

The best way to deal with it was to gorge on it, overload himself with the pain until it ceased to have any meaning, and not try to avoid it.

You can run, he said. But you'll only die tired.-Boba Fett

You can run," he said. "But you'll only die tired.

Maybe after you survived the Sarlacc, nothing ever really scared you again.

Sorrows don't drown; they briefly submerge only to float to the surface with greater fierceness.

A woman can run faster with her skirt up than a man can with his pants down.

They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds. —Mexican Proverb

You didn't help chop up a two-hundred-fifty-pound man and still graduate at the top of your class without learning how to compartmentalize.

You gotta go through a special kind of hell or a special kind of love to change who you are inside.

Sometimes, all you could do was pray for the strength to carry on.

You've fallen into the habit of feeling low. You can get used to anything, especially bad things. But the only direction now is up. You can't fall off the floor.

Every time Kate got an inkling that she might live, she remembered what her life was like and wondered if it was worth the effort.