Quotes About Perseverance

Sometimes it's not that you don't want help. It's that you can't bear to be offered help that just keeps turning out not to be enough after all.

Maybe the point is just to get through one hour, and then another, and not think farther ahead than that.

Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from reading, 'the right books.

remember when life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile.

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile. Laura Miller - Butterfly Weeds

Hope is a funny thing when you think about it. It's something you always have. You just have to believe you do.

I'll find my way back to you, Brooke Sommerfield. As sure as the sun is gonna rise in the mornin', I'll find you," I whisper into the wind. - River

But Sean wasn't going to let her win. Not this time. She'd won the last round, back in Rome, when the wooden door to her room in the slightly cheesy pensione nearly flattened him.

One way to remain unfinished is to stop. the other is to go on.

It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking.

Tell ya what I'm gonna do, see. I'm not going to hope. Now, you don't either. Don't hope your life will get better. Just make it so. Don't hope you are able to handle this baby. Just do it. Just be glad, just move fast, just do what you need to do. But for god's sake, don't hope. Just be...Just be...

No!" She pries the frozen square of manure from the dog's teeth and flings it away. Then she unzips her jacket and sighs one of those frustrated sighs that is supposed to help get patience back and which he hears from his wife all the time now. "Remember, Dad,

And now, tonight, we're living through the bitter part, or maybe the painful, burning part. But more sweetness will come, sooner or later. Trust that it will.

Maybe that's what I need to do now, muster up everything that was ever vivísima about me and somehow find a way to stand tall.

La guerra, que resuena a lo lejos, me dice que hay una noche más oscura detrás de esta noche del patio.

La Muerte tiene una hermana, más taimada y perseverante, que se llama Agonía. La dama Agonía me sostiene en sus brazos desde aquella vez-

Hasta en la sombra más profunda podemos buscar, y tal vez encontrar, una luz oculta.

Forgive me, giver, if I destroy the gift: it is so nearly what would please me I cannot but perfect it

There's always a fire.

That seemed to be the most horrible thing of all, that you could lose something so precious to you, something you loved, and still go on.

No one is ever ready for something like this. You don't do it because you're ready. You do it because you're weary. And I am weary. I have been weary for too long.

Forge ahead despite your pain and give meaning to your loss.

You cannot rescue somebody, little bird. You can help them. But they must rescue themselves.