Quotes About Perseverance

You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

The view reminded of the Haitain proverb "Beyond mountains there are mountains" which meant that when you'd solved one problem, you couldn't rest because you had to go on and solve the next.

Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear . . .

BARBARA: You're never coming back to me, are you, Bill? BILL: Never say never, but . . . BARBARA: But no. BILL: But no.

It's something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it.

Travis Neighbor Ward

Learning to live with wounded places is a mission threaded with find¬ing and making beauty. If I'm open to the likelihood of it, I can always find beauty under any circumstances, whether it's in a kindly gesture from a stranger or the first shoot of greenery shoving up through the waste of a calamitous event. Beauty is the antidote to grief and despair, and it is the one sure thing I can bring to bear when I confront a place that has fallen on hard times.

To see a place as orphaned or wounded is also to reexamine the meaning of living and dying and to allow some curiosity and even a sense of marvel to emerge about the tactics things employ to persevere.

If we're just trying to be accurate, then how about 'The Doomed to Fail Bunch'?" said Constance. "Honestly! We can't even name ourselves.

I see that something's are hard to do, but that you can't live with yourself if you don't do them. I see that the best way to help myself is to help the people I care about. The rest will sort itself out. It has to, right?

It's not going to be over until we say so.

Remember the white knight." Though it seemed so long ago, he well remembered their conversation about the chess problem. The white knight had made a move, changed his mind, and started over. "And do you believe this was a good move?" Mr. Benedict had asked. "No, sir," Reynie had answered. "Why, then, do you think he made it?" And Reynie had replied, "Perhaps because he doubted himself.

Go on, Kate. I don't want to have fallen four stories for nothing." - Milligan

It's not going to be over," Kate said firmly, "until we say so.

Sometimes, Reynie, trouble itself is the key. - Mr. Benedict

In the meantime, there was nothing to do but exist and persist.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Sometimes, Reynie, trouble itself is the key.

Milligan, having found nothing else to throw, had thrown himself.

The gym is always open, except when it's closed.

I hope you haven't given up on the S.Q.'s of the world, Reynie. As you see, there are a great many sheep in wolves' clothing. If not for S.Q.'s good nature, we'd never have escaped.

You can be disabled" warned Dalek X "Try It, harm them in any way and I will not cooperate. You can disable me and torture me and kill me but you will never get the TARDIS!

There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.

No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'