Quotes About Perseverance

No one's coming to save you. You have to do it.

Eva wanted things. She'd just forgotten how to get them.

Today there is help all around—articles abound on these subjects, 12-step rooms are around the corner, and help is down the hall in many schools and workplaces. But we have to reach out and take hold of the help. And we have to stick with it until we can create meaningful change in our lives.

Winning is not life, fighting for third place is.

The greatest danger of being gifted, is that you may never learn how to make an effort.

It's easy to plant a seed and sprinkle it with water, but once the sun scorches the ground, and the earth soaks up all the moisture, you're left with nothing but a thirsty little flower trying desperately to make it out of the dirt.

Don't swear off all the fruits just because you ate one bad apple.

we grew apart. The thing is, we loved each other, and on some level we always will, but when you're twenty-three and you fall in love, you tend to think that love will supercede any problems. Realizing that no matter how much you love somebody, no matter how desperately you want a relationship to work, life can act as an oxidizer and corrode it to pieces." - Loring Blackman

When I asked Vera why Michael was so obstinate, she told me that some asshole had recently broken Eliza's heart. A drummer, no less. Hell, even I know girls should stay away from the goddamn drummers.

Because a soul never truly loses hope until hope has turned to ashes, or has been buried six feet underground.

you can't put life on pause and then catch up with it later when you have more energy to give. You have to play it all the way through to the end.

But sometimes talent isn't worth shit. There are tons of talentless people out there making zillions of dollars. And unfortunately, an equal number of brilliant artists whose names and voices you'll never hear.

My lust never flourished arbitrarily. Life had never been that easy for me.

I showed up, shut up, and made it work. But it felt like compromise. And if you ask me, compromise feels like amputation.

I've got some battle wounds.

Tiffany L. Warren

People don't understand that when I grew up, I was never the most talented. I was never the biggest. I was never the fastest. I certainly was never the strongest. The only thing I had was my work ethic, and that's been what has gotten me this far.

Hopefully I'll continue to have the success I've had.

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

I tell their stories here to do all of them some small honor. Their lives and, sometimes, their deaths speak to what we are capable of as average people in the face of evil and horror.

We can't always be unlucky in my experience. And so, my dear friend: courage, patience and resignation.

From now on, I'll have to be my own rock. Rebuild my own life. Start afresh. I've done it before, and I'll do it

Tilly Bagshawe

From now on, I'll have to be my own rock. Rebuild my own life. Start afresh. I've done it before, and I'll do it again.