Quotes About Perseverance

Tracie Peterson

But this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before.

bottoming out for cotton. But these things do tend to

love isn't about living in fear. It's not about controlling the hearts of those around you. It is patient and kind. It endures and believes the very best. It never gives up.

Often times we reach out to people who would rather not be reached. We love people who reject our love and would just as soon spit in our face, but Jesus asks us to go on loving--go on reaching. It's easy to love someone when they love us, but so much harder to love when we are treated poorly by that person.

Those who have fought the good fight for longer in life are able to pray and encourage those who are weak," she would tell him.

Tienes que ser tan dura como esta cárcel, como la piedra y el océano que te encierran en ella. Estás hecha de ladrillo y alambrada. Estás hecha de hierro.

Some folks call her a runaway. A failure in the race. But she knows where her ticket takes her. She will find her place in the sun

I slowed my pace. Years of hauling water, wringing out clothes, scrubbing floors, emptying chamber pots, with no chance of beauty or color or light in my life, stretched before me like a landscape of flat land where, a long way off, the sea is visible but can never be reached.

I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.

To survive is to exist in spite of adversity.

When you commit to this impossible future, you are "taking a stand.

It means committing yourself to continuously act consistent with the possibility you declared, from the moment the declaration is spoken, regardless of the circumstances.

Every human being has his or her own Winning Strategy—a Strategy for winning the games of life, for "making it" in life—or even for surviving in life.

You probably already know what your persistent, unwanted conditions are. (A clue is: They are the things that you complain the most about.)

I will do this. Nothing in my life matters except this. No moment of my life exists except this moment. I am born in this moment, and if I fail, I will die in this moment.

There was a triumph in patience that no temporary application of force could conquer.

Educar bien exige paciencia, porque es un camino duro, difícil y aparentemente interminable; un proyecto que requiere una perspectiva a largo plazo.

Look, I want to say, The worst thing you can imagine has already Zipped up its coat and is heading back Up the road to wherever it came from.

And what would we do, you and I, if we could know for sure That someone was there squinting through the dust, Saying nothing is lost, that everything lives on waiting only To be wanted back badly enough?

Who can say the word love When everything--everything--pushes back with the promise To grind itself to dust?

And it's not the future their eyes see, But history. It stretches Like a dry road uphill before them. They climb it.

I am you, one day out of five, Tired, empty, hating what I carry But afraid to lay it down, stingy, Angry, doing violence to others By the sheer freight of my gloom, Halfway home, wanting to stop, to quit But keeping going mostly out of spite.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.