Quotes About Perseverance

Each day I felt as if I were looking up from the bottom of a deep well.

Who is tougher than me? No one.

Never never never give up. WINSTON CHURCHILL

When I had no roof I made Audacity my roof. ROBERT PINSKY, "Samurai Song

Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose.

In the tumult of the past year it seemed as if writing had left me forever, but as I hiked, I could feel that novel coming back to me, inserting its voice among the song fragments and advertising jingles in my mind.

Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.

This isn't about strength," said Pat. "And you may not be able to see this yet, but perhaps there will come a time—it could be years from now—when you'll need to get on your horse and ride into battle and you're going to hesitate. You're going to falter. To heal the wound your father made, you're going to have to get on that horse and ride into battle like a warrior.

It was the thing that had compelled them to fight for the trail against all the odds,

There wasn't a day on the trail when that monotony didn't ultimately win out, when the only thing to think about was whatever was the physically hardest. It was a sort of scorching cure. I counted my steps, working my way to a hundred and starting over again at one. Each time I completed another set it seemed as if I'd achieved a small thing. Then a hundred became too optimistic and I went to fifty, then twenty-five, then ten.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Tell

But the thing about rising is we have to continue upward; the thing about going beyond is we have to keep going.

My feet? Well, they were still entirely, unspeakably fucked.

If it is impossible for you to go on as you were before, so you must go on as you never have.

You dont have the right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you're holding...

I stopped in my tracks when that thought came into my mind, that hiking the PCT was the hardest thing I'd ever done. Immediately, I amended the thought. Watching my mother die and having to live without her, that was the hardest thing I'd ever done.

I felt better than I'd ever felt in all of my life, now that the trail had taught me how horrible I could feel.

I looked north, in its direction—the very thought of that bridge a beacon to me. I looked south, to where I'd been, to the wild land that had schooled and scorched me, and considered my options. There was only one, I knew. There was always only one. To keep walking.

I'd been on the PCT for a little more than a month. It seemed like a long time and also it seemed like my trip had just begun, like I was only now digging into whatever it was I was out here to do. Like I was still the woman with the hole in her heart, but the hole had gotten ever so infinitesimally smaller.

I only felt that in spite of all the things I'd done wrong, in getting myself here, I'd done right. I

There was nothing to do but go on.

I asked, often out loud: Who is tougher than me? The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely there was no way on this earth it was true, I said it anyway: No one.

I'd imagined endless meditations upon sunsets or while staring out across pristine mountain lakes. I'd thought I'd weep tears of cathartic sorrow and restorative joy each day of my journey. Instead, I only moaned, and not because my heart ached. It was because my feet did and my back did and so did the still-open wounds all around my hips.

Saying it's hard is ultimately a justification to do whatever seems like the easiest thing to do -- have the affair, stay at that horrible job, end a friendship over a slight, keep loving someone who treats you terribly.