Quotes About Perseverance

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.

To anyone reading this who has ever felt disheartened and confused, hurt or lost...you are not alone. You are surrounded by countless multitudes of people everywhere who are just like you. Just like us. But you don't have to stay confused or lost or in pain. We might forget this sometimes - or may not know it at all. But there is nothing in your life, no matter how difficult or painful, that cannot be turned into something very beautiful. So please, have lots of hope.

Dating is the gym class of life, not the advanced calculus class.

The easiest way to never get anything done is to never commit to anything.

You do not win a race by trying not to loose

La vie, ce n'est pas une bite, elle est toujours dure.

Hidup hanya menunda kekalahan.

Virtuous persons and fruit-laden trees bow, but fools and dry sticks break because they do not bend.

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

It is easy to stand a pain, but difficult to stand an itch.

whether the people are happy or not in their lives, they have learned to keep steadily moving, moving all the time.

That Fan did not see any of this is not so ironic, for all along her journey we've observed more of her than she'll ever know. She moves on, she pushes forward, this her guileless calling, and we have to remind ourselves that it's perhaps more laudable simply to keep heading out into the world than always tilting to leave one's mark on it.

I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.

You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.

Of course you can go on. It's what we do. We go on. Learn how to live with the suffering we're dealt.

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.

Sometimes the bitch wins.

The first gift is Strength. May you remember to call upon it whenever you need it.

The fifth gift is Hope. Through each passage and season, may you trust the goodness of life.

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.

Life in battle is like a roll of toilet paper....the more you use it, the less you have left.

I saw a fleet of fishing boats…. I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland.They just stared. Maybe they didn't hear me. Maybe I didn't hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool. An hour later I saw land.

Brig. Gen. Barnard Bee was compelled to give the order to fall back. Attempting to rally the retreating men, Bee used Gen. Thomas J. Jackson's newly arrived brigade as an anchor. Pointing to Jackson, Bee shouted, "There stands Jackson like a stone wall! Rally behind the Virginians!" Jackson was a tough fighter but also very religious. He exhorted one officer to "pray without ceasing.

Shortly after the burial of the woman, I got sick with a burning fever. Late in the evening I started for Lamy Junction, the nearest store, a distance of 12 miles, to get a bottle of Carter's little liver pills, my favorite remedy when feeling badly. I secured a room in the Harvey hotel and taking a dose of pills, went to bed for the night. Next morning I felt worse and was burning up with fever. Still