Quotes About Perseverance

It takes more than one kick in the pants to reverse a lifetime of unplanned apathy.

pain is fact; suffering is optional

Do not dwell on dying. Focus on your training and what you are going to do to ensure your survival.

Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.

Just think of AIDS as . . . the guest that won't leave. The one we all hate. But you have to remember. Hey--it's still our party.

the one thing to which the human spirit could always accommodate itself was chaos and misfortune.

time, stability and loyalty, which are not things usually to be reaped without first being sown. Perhaps

And a rock feels no pain; And an island never cries.

To be patient in an emergency is a terrible trial.

Normal, nice people don't become writers.

Lying on a flat, sun-heated rock to get my breath, procrastinating, I soon abandoned my effort to get to the top of Cerro Potosí.

the obstacles to becoming noticed or published

on my trip whenever I felt obstructed or low, I thought of this valiant woman, and moved on.

People always tell you that night school is a good thing,' I said. 'But they are the same people who go home after a day's work and eat and snooze and listen to the radio. You students are doing one of the hardest things in the world- studying at night, when you're tired ...

You can work hard here and still earn very little.

My ideal traveler is the person who goes the old, laborious way into the unknown, and it is this belief that lies behind my travel, and drives me.

cling to—they have little else to cling to.

In my what-am-I-doing-here? mood Akisha was a timely lesson. She made a point of staying positive, didn't grumble, never gossiped, and she expected the best from her students. She was also a passionate photographer, and though her talk was always upbeat, her photographs were a record of all she had seen.

If we do not test ourselves daily, in seemingly small ways, our spiritual selves will never build the strength we will need when life's major trials are presented.

Yes, my dear," she said out loud to herself, "you took quite a fall." And felt pure amazement at the long time it had taken before she had finally found again the ground.

The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting.

She did not wish to die, but if torture was the price she had to pay to keep her lover's love, then she only hoped he was pleased that she had endured it. All soft and silent she waited, waited for them to bring her back to him. None

it is only courage on the path itself that makes the path appear

None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have faith.