Quotes About Perseverance

I hate the calendar, which is both a circle and a straight line, a wheel and an arrow, grinding each anniversary, each day a reminder of my failures, my lost plans, unfulfilled objectives and wishes, the days aren't taken off the calendar, subtracted one by one, but added, another small stone accumulated, another foot moved ahead, the arrow flying forward instead of falling back to earth, when all I want is a complete stop.

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.

To all whom the cloud of depression has not yet lifted, there is hope. Let's walk together through these pages on a journey that brings great rewards. May you sense a new direction and peace.

And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.

We humans endure the gifts the gods give us, even when we are grieving over what has to be.

Each night, I knelt on a marble slab and scrubbed at the blood. I scrubbed for years and still it was there. But tonight the bones in my feet begin to burn. I stand up and start walking, and the slab appears under my feet with each step, a white road only as long as your body.

You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way.

Tough times don't last, tough people do, remember?

The funny thing about firemen is, night and day, they are always firemen.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure - but in order to have more success, I needed to be willing to accept more failure.

So much has broken away already, there is nothing to drink but air, nothing left to walk on but water, yet the fasting heart grows full.

Gretta Mulrooney

it can be hard when you're pedalling furiously below water to stay afloat.

Hope is tricky, slippery; it's a door opening and then slamming in your face. The

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Now that I had become a man (with a leaky fountain pen to prove it), I was ready to take on the world.

A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.

I have tried so hard to do right.

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.