Quotes About Perseverance

There are times in our life when we don't know the direct outcome of our prayers, and the enemy wants us to think that God didn't hear us or didn't care. This is never the case, of course, even if we don't see immediate answers or the outcomes we anticipate.

If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.

You can try to avoid getting hurt six ways from Sunday, but it still might happen.

Once you got started, all you had to do was keep placing one foot in front of the other, no matter how happy or sad you were. I'd taken that first step because I'd wanted to look better. I'd wanted my clothes to fit. But it hadn't taken me long to figure out that the biggest benefit was less about vanity than it was about sanity. Walking always helped.

I thought I could get to greatness, to my greatness, by plugging on, cleaning up each mess as it came, the way you're taught to eat your greens before you have dessert.

It all came down to entitlement, and one's sense of it. Marina, feeling entitled, never really asked herself if she was good enough. Whereas he, Julius, asked himself repeatedly, answered always in the affirmative, and marveled at the wider world's apparent inability to see the light. he would have to show them - of this he was ever more decided, with a flamelike conviction. But he was already thirty, and the question was how?

Reza, in spite of the tears caught in his lashes like raindrops on a spider's web, did not cry.

We find hope where we can, and where we cannot, invent it.

Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will come true. When you realize that, there's still so much of a life to get through.

Ah well. You know what they say. Progress, not perfection. That's why it's called training. Shall we begin again?

You wouldn't be the first trainee to fail, you know. You won't be the last, either. It takes real courage to submit." Ashley's

I can't do much yet, but even if I can do a little to help ... I want to give it all I have! If a person doesn't do anything, they never get any better. Doing one little thing, taking one little step forward ... I gotta believe it will help build a better future!

No matter how painful it might be...I'll do everything in my might! So please, you too, act according to what you believe in!

The instand one gives up, that is when it all ends. Keep wishing. Wish strongly! Wish hard! Do not let it matter what kind of being you are! Do not let it matter what pressures others put on you! Continue to wish for that which your heart truly desires!!

After the way you accepted the mission, I know I can't convince you otherwise. So, instead ... come back alive. We'll be here ... waiting for you to come back.

The power of your will is everything.

No matter how many thousands must shed their blood…or if it means going to hell, I will never break my promise.

Being a writer means crying over the sad parts, even though you already know it's going to be okay.

It's a prison. It's twenty-four-hour-a-day life in a jail cell. We never get out, not even for one second. All we can do, all day long, is look for ways to survive. Nobody needs to teach us tricks. We brainstorm our own tricks all day long. When real anorexics compare notes, we've already figured out all the same tricks—and each one of us did it on our own.

No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.

Clay Susan Griffith

you perfect results. What I can promise you is that you won't get it right if you don't commit to keep trying.

In sacrificing for something worthwhile, you deeply strengthen your commitment to it.

There are no quick fixes for the fundamental problems of life.