Quotes About Perseverance

Whether it's a relationship or a toaster that's broken, they just replace it. You're bound to fall out and have arguments and you should work at getting the relationship back together, but nobody wants to any more.

Rhoda, my mother, was what the neighbors euphemistically termed a difficult woman. Her misery was like Texas oil: You could drill anywhere and find some.

The world rains on everybody, Laura. We just have to figure out a way to get a bigger umbrella than a lot of other people need, that's all. ~from-Here Comes The Heroes~

Scars heal," Sylvie said. "Even the worst ones.

Just because something bad had happened to her doesn't mean it won't happen again.

Marriage is based on a more enduring kind of love.

What did you do when the worst thing that could happen to you had already happened - how did you live life then? You had to hand it to Theo Wyre, just carrying on living required a strength and courage that most people didn't have.

you walk into a room and your life ends but you keep on living.

Because life is an adventure, of course." "I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course.

No point in thinking," she said briskly, "you just have to get on with life." (She really was turning into Miss Woolf.) "We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try." (The transformation was complete.) "What if we had a chance to do it again and again," Teddy said, "until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?" "I think it would be exhausting.

Why make it easy when you could make it as difficult for yourself as possible? She was a woman, so, technically speaking, she could do anything.

Bridget wiped her tears vigorously on her apron and said, "Must get on with the tea.

Sometimes you wondered why anyone bothered crawling out of the cradle when what lay ahead was so darn difficult.

Her soft soul had crystallized. (Just as well, she thought.) She was a sword tempered in the fire.

Jackson had never really seen the point of existential angst. If you didn't like something you changed it and if you couldn't change it you sucked it up and soldiered on, one foot after the other. ("Remind me not to come to you for therapy," Julia said.)

how strange it was that people just kept on going, even when their world no longer existed.

For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Life gives nothing to man without labor.

A man who keeps on going; a man who keeps his eye on the ball.

The Lord bears all the weaknesses of men, but He does not bear a man who is always murmuring, and does not leave Him without chastisement.

To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.

It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise.

In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything