Quotes About Perseverance

As far as businesses, I was always hustling. I had to pay for my own school. I got 20 bucks every week or 2 from my dad and that was it. So I had a "whatever it took" attitude.

I know that I too could try a story out, rebuild mine, make it live again several minutes before the full of the day, the sun, the city. But I haven't the strength, stupidly. I rise and carry on. One more time.

The very fact that these doctors continuing to be doctors--highly successful ones--despite their errors and their accompanying assaults on their self-definion would itself be a potent lesson to the students and interns. It is possible to hold one's head up after an error, to admit that errors are part and parcel of human existence, even in medicine. It is possible to see the error as an aspect of oneself, not the defining characteristic of oneself.

There was nothing you couldn't do if you wanted it bad enough, and were willing to work hard enough to get it.

You can have anything you want, if you go out and get it. If you claim it as your own. You have a right to it.

Nothing is irreversible except dying.

Everett thought about it for a minute before he answered. I go on with my life. I keep coming to meetings. And I love her forever.

We're all given terrible trials sometimes, things that we think will break our spirit and kill us, and they make us stronger in the end. They seem like the cruelest blows, but in a funny way they're like compliments from God.

She had no idea where the future would lead her or what it would look like, but whatever happened, she was determined to survive it.

You need to wake yourself up and take a grab at life. No one is going to hand it to you.

I'm still here. I have to go on. I have to give something back, to make my time here worth something. If not, the time I've been given here would have been totally wasted. And I don't think we have a right to do that.

I had learned firsthand that tragedy and disappointment can strike any of us at any time.

Hang in. We'll make it. We all have each other.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." —SOURCE UNKNOWN

His smiles were hard won, but when they came, they were well worth it. They lit up his face like summer sunshine. The rest of the time, and far more frequently, he seemed lost in winter. And when he laughed, he was a different person.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." —SOURCE

Suddenly she felt guilty for not working harder to forgive him and repair the damage, but he hadn't either. They had been two lost people, treading water for seven years, after the ship went down. Excerpt From: Steel, Danielle. Country. Delacorte Press, 2015-06-16. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.

Courage is not the absence of fear or despair, but the strength to conquer them.

But she was as they always were: strong, quiet, determined to prevail no matter what it cost them, brave in the face of sorrow.

Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.

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Life wasn't always easy, and had a way of filing down the sharp corners and rough edges.

Every day, good stuff and bad stuff happens to us. It's what you do about it and how you handle it that matters.

By the end of the first week, three of the women had dropped out, begging for mercy. They couldn't stand the extreme pressure, the demanding lessons, the challenges, and the mental and physical abuse. The women who remained were determined to stay the course