Quotes About Perseverance

Don't be afraid to fail. Persevere through mistakes and struggles. Stay focused, patient, confident, and smart and you'll have a better chance of making money.

The stars are always shining...even when you can't see them.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries

Alan Redpath wrote of Caleb and Joshua's faith: "The majority measured the giants against their own strength; Caleb and Joshua measured the giants against God. The majority trembled; the two triumphed. The majority had great giants but a little God. Caleb had a great God and little giants.

The more comfortable you can be with being uncomfortable, the faster you will grow as a human being, and the more success you will have in life. This is exactly what distinguishes successful people from unsuccessful ones.

People don't have great attitudes because of great success, they have great success largely because of great attitudes.

It can't rain all the time.

Sarah: Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever...

A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.

The walls are everywhere. Limits. You're not smart enough, not rich enough. You get tired. You die. Some people like to pretend they've broken out. That they're running free. But there's no escape. You have to find a way to live within the walls. And then, they don't matter.

The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that you have no idea how you can live through it, somehow, the world keeps turning, the seconds keep ticking.

I want to be able to see stuff, Iggy said. Like I used to, when I was little. And I want to be able to totally kick Jeb's butt.

We probably looked like starving orphan children. Hey! We were starving orphan children.

It sucked, but it was way cool at the same time, Gazzy said. I felt like the Blue Angels! Yeah, except the blue Angels are an extremely well funded, well equipped, well trained, well fed, and no doubt squeaky-clean group of crack navy pilots, I said. And we're a bunch of unfunded, unequipped, semitrained, not nearly well fed enough, and filthy mongrel avian-human hybrids. But other than that, it's exactly the same.

Bad stuff happens. Sometimes it makes no sense at all. Sometimes its unfair. Sometimes, it just plain sucks. Bad stuff happens sometimes. Always remember that, but remember that you have to move on somehow. You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky, or the ocean, and you move the hell on.

Max-Dogs, dogs, go away, let me live another day.

Another day. Get up and face it.

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.

James Patterson

Everything I loved was taken away from me, and I did not die.

Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to

It's okay, Ig. said Fang. Just give it your best shot. Sometimes the Fangster is incredibly supportive, just not with me.

Every masterpiece comes at the end of a long line of failures.

Well, I don't know. Mostly I just suck up what life throws my way, stomp on it, and then keep going. I don't dwell much on what I am or how I got this way. It just is. I just am. I'm Max, and whatever form I take, it's good enough for me.