Quotes About Perseverance

Never say no to yourself. Make the other guy say no.

From that visit I took away one lesson: Death is the price you pay for underestimating this tenacious enemy.

Their orders were to draw the newly arrived Americans into battle and search for the flaws in their thinking that would allow a Third World army of peasant soldiers who traveled by foot and fought at the distant end of a two-month-long supply line of porters not only to survive and persevere, but ultimately to prevail in the war—which was, for them, entering a new phase.

There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.

Lincoln said his spiky hair had "a way of getting up in the world".

The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back.

I have read, upon my knees, the story of Gethsemane, where the Son of God prayed in vain that the cup of bitterness might pass from him. I am in the Garden of Gethsemane now, and my cup of bitterness is full and overflowing.

Remember, nothing is forever. The darkness passes. The illness subsides.

Is there an answer to the question of why bad things happen to good people?...The response would be…to forgive the world for not being perfect, to forgive God for not making a better world, to reach out to the people around us, and to go on living despite it all…no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it has happened.

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

I worked in the mines beside you, and once you work in the mines you never stop bein' a miner, no matter what else you do.

On the inspiration for Never Love a Stranger: "[The book begins with] a poem from To the Unborn by Stella Benson. There were a lot of disappointments especially during the Depression—fuck it—in everyone's life there are disappointments and lost hope…. No one escapes. That's why you got to be grateful every day that you get to the next.

God's role is not to make our lives easier, to make the hard things go away, or to do them for us. God's role is to give us the vision to know what we need to do, to bless us with the qualities of soul that we will need in order to do them ourselves, no matter how hard they may be, and to accompany us on that journey.

When he thought he was doing something that made a difference to people, he could bear any burden [Moses]. When he lost that sense of achievement, he became too discouraged to keep on doing the hard things.

cuando las cosas le vayan mal, no abandone su fe en Dios. Él tiene sus propias razones para lo que hace y, si usted se mantiene firme en su fe el tiempo preciso, le recompensará por sus sufrimientos.

There will be dark days, days of loss and days of failure, but they will not last forever. The light will always return to chase away the darkness, the sun will always come out again after the rain, and the human spirit will always rise above failure. Fear will assault us, but we will not be afraid, "for Thou art with me.

believe in God is not to affirm His existence. To believe in God means to trust God, to rely on God to be there for you when you are afflicted by despair, to light your path when you are uncertain as to what to do.

If we think of life as a kind of Olympic games, some of life's crises are sprints. They require maximum emotional concentration for a short time. Then they are over, and life returns to normal. But other crises are distance events. They ask us to maintain our concentration over a much longer period of time, and that can be a lot harder.

every obstacle should at first be put in the way of the aspiring artist, as it is only those you cannot discourage who are worth encouraging.

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

13I can do all things through him who strengthens me. 14In any case, it was kind of you to share my distress. 15

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Finally this treatment will dissipate it. Pessimism,

I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.