Quotes About Perseverance

We're becoming a nation of sissies.

You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you,' she said. With our garbage bag taped window, our tied down hood, and art supplies strapped to the roof, we'd out-Okied the Okies.

Just remember," Mom said after examining the blisters, "what doesn't kill you will make you stronger." "If that was true, I'd be Hercules by now," Lori said.

You know, if it's humanly possible, I'll get it for you. And if it ain't humanly possible, I'l die trying.

She kept saying that the flood was God's will and we had to submit to it. But I didn't see things that way. Submitting seemed to me a lot like giving up. If God gave us the strength to bail—the gumption to try to save ourselves—isn't that what he wanted us to do?

Job, chapter fourteen, verse seven," Aunt Al said. " Ã¢â'¬ËœFor there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender shoots will not cease.' 

My favorite books all involved people dealing with hardships.

Most important thing in life," he would say, "is learning how to fall." *

You know you're down and out when the Okies laugh at you.

The scar meant that I was stronger than what had tried to hurt me.

Mom waved at the crowd. "You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you," she said. With our garbage-bag-taped window, our roped-down hood, and the art supplies tied to the roof, we'd out-Okied the Okies. The thought gave her a fit of the giggles.

One of the ways to discover our toughness and resiliency is to look back at where we come from. (from Amazon description)

Jeannette Walls

Hunting is waiting, the Duke used to say, and if you never came home empty-handed they wouldn't call it hunting.

Jeannette Walls

months pregnant. Dad, who had fixed

You know, if it's humanly possible, I'll get it for you. And if it ain't humanly possible, I'll die trying.

Unfortunately, theory don't always carry the day.

What Dad didn't understand was that no matter how much he hated or feared the future, it was coming, and there was only one way to deal with it: by climbing aboard.

Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten," Dad said, "you'll still have your stars.

Eventually, even Mom acknowledged that I'd done all right. "No one expected you to amount to much," she told me. "Lori was the smart one, Maureen the pretty one, and Brian the brave one. You never had much going for you except that you always worked hard.

Most important thing in life, he would say, is learning how to fall.

Dad, I said, you'll never build the Glass Castle.

Commitment is an act, not a word