Quotes About Perseverance

I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be. —Martha Washington

I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be. —Martha Washington I can't promise I'll try, but I'll try to try. —Bart Simpson If I fall I just get back up and keep going. —Lindsey Vonn Choose people who will lift you up. —Michelle Obama

is often when night looks darkest, that one senses the gathering momentum for change.

Unhappiness isn't the worst thing in the world. It doesn't last forever and it usually teaches you something about yourself.

Her work had been going so well and now it was all going to end.

Whenever we reach an unexpected barrier in the way of honoring our souls' truth through action, it is essential to dust ourselves off and keep flying toward our dreams.

Not much of what I value in our lives is easy.

Leaving wasn't weak, and it wasn't giving up. It was brave and hard fought, a transition like any other, difficult and scary and probably necessary in the end. Fighting it only delayed the inevitable.

whose grandmotherly advice was, "Fuck the bastards,

One day at a time. One foot in front of the other. All for one.

I'm so sorry because it's still not easy. You have a long, hard, terrible road ahead. There are lots of ways to travel it, but they all suck and they all involve letting go.

Having children, helping people, making art, inventing anything, leading the way, tackling the world's problems, overcoming your own. I don't know. Not much of what I value in our lives is easy.

Having children, helping people, making art, inventing anything, leading the way, tackling the world's problems, overcoming your own. I don't know. Not much of what I value in our lives is easy. But there's not much of it I'd trade for easy either, I don't think.

Claude did take a call from Carmelo, whose grandmotherly advice was, "Fuck the bastards,

So Grumwald felt his way was, if not firmly paved, at least densely pebbled, and that was as good a start as one could wish for.

There's a fork in the road. It seems like there are only two choices. It seems like the task is to figure out which way to go, left or right, forward or back, deeper or safer, but in fact any of those choices is easy compared to the real trick. The real trick is you have to forge your way straight ahead through the trees where there is no path.

Grass stain?" "Annoying, probably permanent, essentially harmless. Kind of ugly.

Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.

I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable.

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable.

Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.

My mother was in the Army Reserve for six years. She taught me the importance of following rules, finishing what I start, never giving up, leadership skills, teamwork, staying positive, motivated and how to pack the military way when I'm traveling!