Quotes About Perseverance

Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.

Another day, another dolor.

If you are wise you step through the darkness only one foot at a time.

And when you go around in circles, brother, the world is very big, but if you plow straight ahead it's small enough.

He had learned that the cure for fate was patience.

That he'd see the light and it'd still be in a tunnel.

He would not become soft. It was exhaustion he wanted—it helped him write. He needed each of his words to appreciate the weight they bore. He felt like he was lifting them and then letting them drop to the end of his fingers

There was a quote about standing in a river too long or long enough that I can't find now. Anyone remember? If so, what page?

There were canvases in our backseat. We had tried to flog them at Max's Kansas City the night before, but we had failed. Paintings that nobody wanted. Still, we had carefully arranged them so they wouldn't get scratched. We had even placed bits of styrofoam between them to keep them from rubbing one another. if only we had been so careful with ourselves.

He would not become soft. It was exhaustion he wanted—it helped him write. He needed each of his words to appreciate the weight they bore. He felt like he was lifting them and then letting them drop to the end of his finge

He was standing on the little ledge of reality he had left, but it seemed to me that he wasn't getting high, just getting level. He had an affinity with pain. If he couldn't cure it, he took it on.

Failure is good. Failure admits ambition. Failure admits bravery. Failure admits daring. It requires courage to fail and even more courage to know that you're going to fail...And in the end there's only one real failure - and that's the failure to be able to fail. Having tried is the true bravery.

Every time a branch of mine got to being a decent size, that wind just came along and broke it.

The dominant feeling is that this reign of terror can hardly last long, but that its fall will bury us.

Head held high for the difficult last five minutes!

If we truly understood God's plan for the union between a man and a woman, we'd fight harder. People give up on the husband or wife God has chosen for them too easily. Anyone can walk away, the courage comes in staying and fighting. And if God is in the mix, staying is worth it. Like I said, we just have to understand marriage.

Psalms 18:30 and Psalms 34:19.

Maybe these bad things are good things because they build our faith for what is to come.

So there's nothing inside of me, as a black man in this country, that will let me wait.

They have no idea the fierceness that lurks within your petite frame.

I believed in our vows. I just prayed that one day, we could get back to the 'for better ' part because we were drowning in all of this for worse.

And I was fairly certain that my strong-enough-for-King-Kong-but-made-for-a-woman deodorant had utterly failed. --Doom with a View

I needed to accept that this was my reality, and nothing was ever going to change it.

But even if there's a chance we can save her, we have to try