Quotes About Perseverance

It's only a matter of inches, but skipping gets us just that much closer to heaven.

With all its ups and downs, skipping is just one more metaphor for life.

You may never get rid of the butterflies, but you can teach them how to fly in formation.

You know you're a skydiver when you show up at the drop zone even on the worst-weather days because at least you can sit around drinking beer.

The only cure for writer's block is insomnia.

This smile isn't a lack of pain. It's a victory gesture of not letting pain defeat me.

It is easy to quit; I have quit at least a hundred times.

I am often asked what keeps me going after all these years. I think it is the realization that there is no final struggle. Whether you win or lose, each struggle brings forth new contradictions, new and more challenging questions. As Alice Walker put it in one of my favorite poems: I must love the questions themselves as Rilke said like locked rooms full of treasures to which my blind and groping key does not yet fit.1

Getting good grades and learning things is the key to any door you want to open in the future. If you don't try your best, you are hurting yourself the most.

the Black Tortoise

Science and knowledge changed from year to year, but there had not been wanting those in every age who had found God by searching for Him with all their hearts, and by taking Him at His Word.

went right to the spot, and would save putting up much else. Hannah shut her lips and tried to make the line of them look pleasant, but

Thanks for the warning, but you see, I'm working for God and I can't quit till He says so. If I'm worth anything to Him He'll take care of me.

O let me ne'er forget That though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the ruler yet.

Don't ever fancy, no matter how hard a thing you have to go through, that your experience is unique. This old world has been going on a good many hundred years, and there are precious few situations that haven't happened over and over again. Cheer up, child; that's a model letter, and you're a good little sport!

Not every skin-teeth is a smile 'Massa' if you see me smiling when you pass if you see me bending when you ask Know that I smile know that I bend only the better to rise and strike again

Given the proper incentive, no mountain, it seems, is too high to climb, no current too swift to swim, if one is a Cherokee.

We can try, but

Se aprendesse qualquer coisa, necessitaria aprender mais, e nunca ficaria satisfeito.

Num cotovelo do caminho avistou um canto de cerca, encheu-o a esperança de achar comida, sentiu desejo de cantar. A voz saiu-lhe rouca, medonha. Calou-se para não estragar força.

Resistiram à fraqueza, afastaram-se envergonhados, sem ânimo de afrontar de novo a luz dura, receosos de perder a esperança que os alentava.

numa terra de conformismo e usura, onde o funcionário se agarrava ao cargo como ostra, o comerciante e o industrial roíam sem pena o consumidor esbrugado, o operário se esfalfava à toa, o camponês aguentava todas as iniquidades, fatalista, sereno.

Retirou-se. A humilhação atenuou-se pouco a pouco e morreu. Precisava entrar em casa, jantar, dormir. E precisava crescer, ficar tão grande como Fabiano, matar cabras a mão de pilão, trazer uma faca de ponta à cintura. Ia crescer, espichar-se numa cama de varas, fumar cigarros de palha, calçar sapatos de couro cru.

I've had one very bad ankle injury but otherwise I've been incredibly lucky with my fitness. I've worked hard at it and I've always been fit even compared to other players. That sustains you through various parts of your career, but I am 36.