Quotes About Perseverance

My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.

Always there are walls, Rachael, she persisted. Walls that block our path. Too high, too hard. We stop to rest, to gather strength, and before we know it we have lived whole lives in their shade. In time, we cease to even see them there, casting their long shadows, blocking our path. We cease to yearn for the other side.

Nothing is won without sacrifice.

Everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery.

It's a beauty one isn't born with, but must fight to construct at great sacrifice.

I didn't regret the decision to take hormones. I wouldn't have survived much longer without passing. And the surgery was a gift to myself, a coming home to my body. But I wanted more than to just barely exist, a stranger always trying not to get involved. I wanted to find out who I was, to define myself. Whoever I was, I wanted to deal with it, I wanted to live it again. I wanted to be able to explain my life, how the world looked from behind my eyes.

Ed," I said, "I really fucked up this time" "Nah," she reassured me, "you just got a little more growing up to do." "I don't know if i can do it," I told her. My friend laughed. "You got no choice.

I'm not saying we'll live to see some sort of paradise. But just fighting for change makes you stronger. Not hoping for anything will kill you for sure.

As she climbed down from the stage, I thought: This is what courage is. It's not just living through the nightmare, it's doing something with it afterward. It's being brave enough to talk about it to other people. It's trying to organize to change things.

When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.

An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up.

Whatever we did see and endure in those stairs, we were the lucky ones. For some, there were no stairs and no exit at all.

I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. I believe in love even when I'm not feeling it. I believe in God even when he is silent. —AUTHOR UNKNOWN

Leslie Hulet Stahl

Falling in love isn't the problem" she murmured. "its the staying in love part that i don't have much faith in.

I don't believe there is such a thing as unanswered prayer. There is misguided prayers, selfish prayers, and doubting prayers, but true prayer doesn't go unanswered - it is merely abandoned prematurely due to lack of persistence and faithful endurance.

It took a great deal of energy to be a human being, and the more the wind blew and the sun moved southwest, the less energy Tayo had.

As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.

We all have been waiting for help a long time. But it never has been easy. The people must do it. You must do it.

He was standing with the wind at his back, like that mule, and he felt he could stand there indefinitely, maybe forever, like a fence post or a tree. It took a great deal of energy to be a human being, and the more the wind blew and the sun moved southwest, the less energy Tayo had.

He had to keep busy; he had to keep moving so that the sinews connected behind his eyes did not slip loose and spin his eyes to the interior of his skull where the scenes waited for him.

Distances and days existed in themselves then; they all had a story. They were not barriers. If a person wanted to get to the moon, there is a way; it all depended on whether you knew the directions... on whether you knew the story of how others before you had gone. He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of "nonsense". But they had been wrong.

I'm a mother. You name it, I've seen it and probably had to mop it up," said Lucy.

Mediocrity wants to be your friend. Be unfriendly.