Quotes About Perseverance

I've decided this is all your fault, Ms. Leone. I've run away before, you know, but stowed away or jumped trains or broke into buildings, I just ran away and got caught. But I think all that stuff you told us about the Underground Railroad got lodged in my subconscious, and somewhere inside it gave me the strength or courage or insanity to really get away. So see? This is all your fault.

Repetition. Effort. Pain. Success. There really is no shortcut.

One by one by one by one. That's how I got through losing a leg. Minute by minute by minute by minute. Hour by hour by hour by hour. Day by day by day by day. That's how anybody makes it through anything

And of course I felt sorry for you, but Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â He stops running. "Didn't you read what I wrote on your running leg? Does it say, I feel sorry for you? No! It says, You inspire me. I want to be around you because you inspire me! You're amazing. I think you're the most Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â I stop running, and I look at him. His

The finish line comes into view and you will yourself toward it, but the wind pushes you back, and your body begs you to give up, and the whole world seems to grind into slow motion. Your determination is all that's left. It forces your muscles to fire. Forces you to stay in the race. Forces you to survive the pain of this moment.

Conquering the wild is nothing compared to fixing the cracks in your heart.

It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily.

One by one by one by one. That's how I got through losing a leg. Minute by minute by minute by minute. Hour by hour by hour by hour. Day by day by day by day.

am a runner. That's what I do. That's who I am. Running is all I know, or want, or care about.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Wendelin Van Draanen

learned what sweating bullets means.

it doesn't matter if it's in your house or in your heart. Dust never truly settles.

Wendelin Van Draanen

He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.

What can't be helped must be endured.

The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you mustn't shirk it. Love, after all, 'hopeth all things.' But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

Waking up from a dream of violence is much the same as waking up from a dream of love. You must go on living your life.

You think winter will never end, and then, when you don't expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.

Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.