Quotes About Perseverance

You can always fix crap. You can't fix a blank page.

There is an old Chinese saying, "Write your sorrows in sand and etch your joys in stone.

So tired am I, so weary of to-day, So unrefreshed from foregone weariness, So overburdened by foreseen distress, So lagging and so stumbling on my way, I scarce can rouse myself to watch or pray, To hope, or aim, or toil for more or less,-- Ah, always less and less, even while I press Forward and toil and aim as best I may. Half-starved of soul and heartsick utterly, Yet lift I up my heart and soul and eyes Which fail in looking upward

God strengthen me to bear myself;That heaviest weight of all to bear,Inalienable weight of care.

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end.

Oh that it were with me As with the flower; Blooming on its own tree For butterfly and bee Its summer morns: That I might bloom mine hour A rose in spite of thorns.

Wait till you've washed and scrubbed for a man for ten or twelve years.

it was only much later that I found out hardness worked better than love.

Lose your balance for a moment and there you go, the world flings you off its spinning surface and its not so easy to scramble back on.

The crowd had broken into song, not in unison, but in a medley of rhythms and melodies. They sang in many Old World tongues, and clapped and drummed. They played on homemade instruments previously proscribed, and clicked their tongues and whistled. These were secret songs, learned from illegal sources, or composed and played in dark, hidden places. These were songs they had been prepared to die for.

The only access now to the world, the universe, is made through bits and pieces, clung to as small heroes battling against withdrawal.

When expectations of mobility are combined with a consumer mind-set, people are very likely to leave when things get difficult.

Of course I can do this. I'm pregnant, not brain-damaged. My condition doesn't change my personality.

His lips slid over her ear. "My mind shares yours. If you're determined to go through with this, then know whatever this takes you, you won't be alone, Tansy. I'm strong. I'll find your mind and I'll bring you back." "Last time I broke into a million pieces." "I'll find each one.

Gratë kanë mbi të gjitha aftësinë që të besojnë edhe në të pamundurën. Burrat besojnë se ata realizojnë gjëra të pamundura.

Arti i burrave është: të prishin punë ose të vrasin mendjen.

Ne nuk e shquajmë menjëherë rrugën e drejtë dhe shkelim shumë kohë në drejtime të gabuara, derisa dikur ndihemi të lodhur.

Cdo gjë ndryshon. Edhe në grahmat e fundit sikur të jesh, duhet të mundohesh t'ia nisësh nga e para. Por ajo që bëhet, nuk mund të zhbëhet më. është njëlloj si uji që, kur e përziejmë me verë, nuk mund ta marrim dot më mbrapsht.

I remember times when I lived in a crucible of troubled phantoms, and faltered in the long, painful struggle for identity. But for me there was always a glimmering promise that lay ahead; with the help of God, a promise that has been fulfilled. I found the oldest gift of heaven--to be myself.

When times are the toughest, don't get discouraged. God may be fixing to do something wonderful

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.