Quotes About Perseverance

School is one long illness with symptoms that switch every five minutes so you think it's getting better or worse. But really it's the same thing for years and years.

But then you're put back together again, in a wholly different order . . ." "And it hurts so much you don't know if the new order will work." "It'll heal. It has to hurt before it heals, don't you think?" He

i]We were fighting so very hard and achieving so very little aside from staying alive. BUT THAT'S EVERYTHING, my father wrote to me, when I told him that in a letter.[/i]

Miranda waited, then said, 'But what will I do for a whole year?' Neither of them answered her. She supposed the answer was, Get better. The thought of a slow and measured crawl back to health filled her with black sand.

Harriet's mother, Margot, is no fan of gingerbread. She stood alone over her mixing bowl and stirred with the clenched fist of a pugilist.

Katherine, I could die horribly here in this chair, and my blood could spray all over the room and cover the pages of that fascinating book you're reading, and I believe, that you'd just wipe the worst away and keep going.

Perdita calls upon her mother to repent, and Harriet repenteth not. She points out that tryhards rarely get enough traction to make a significant nuisance of themselves

School is one long illness with symptoms that switch every five minutes so you think it's getting better or worse. But really it's the same thing for years and years.

And in time, and by being a good woman, and a patient woman, she would have won a good and patient man.

He was really kind of magnificent. Sometimes he'd get punched or interrupted or outshouted while he was saying his sentence. And, well, he'd just wait until the interruption was over. Then, rather than starting his sentence again, he just went on as if nothing had happened, picking up from the precise syllable where he had been forced to stop. It drove people nuts.

If I have to, I can do anything.I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.

I was looking for a husband, but meanwhile to survive, I had to work.

Can you thank Me for trusting you with this (difficult) experience, even if you never know the reason why?

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.

Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

Being an immigrant is not for sissies

Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.

Prepare, and be forewarned in time. If thou hast tried and failed, O dauntless fighter, yet lose not courage: fight on, and to the charge return again and yet again.... Remember, thou that fightest for man's liberation, each failure is success, and each sincere attempt wins its rewards in time.

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet.

Disappointment is in fact a kind of grief—a reaction to the loss of something you desired. If you honor and gently hold the disappointment inside you, and at the same time keep yourself open to the wanting behind the disappointment, you'll be able to weather your disappointments and keep going. Another

Confidence is about stepping up over and over again, looking fear in the face and moving ahead anyway.

Sometimes a person had to do certain things in order to survive the hard life of a single woman with a heavy burden of responsibility to bear.

Please keep in mind that no matter how strong, fast or coordinated you are, there is always someone stronger, faster and more coordinated.

One turns back and submits to fate, changes one's attitude, and finds peace in perseverance.