Quotes About Perseverance

He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?

We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.

I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run.

What is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?

We've become a nation of indoor cats, he'd said. A nation of doubters, worriers, overthinkers. Thank God these weren't the kind of Americans who settled this country. They were a different breed! They crossed the country in wagons with wooden wheels! People croaked along the way, and they barely stopped. Back then, you buried your dead and kept moving.

The raising of a child is the building of a cathedral. You can't cut corners.

If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.

I am the Olympics.

The truth is that I do not like hanging in there. I was born, I believe, to do more. Or perhaps it's that I survived to do more. Dorsetta is married, a mother of three, and manages a restaurant; she does more than hang in there. I have a low opinion of this expression, Hang in there.

What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all such situations with a sense of exhausted resolve, and he dealt with everything head-on.

There would be a time when the world created people stronger than them. When all of this got worked out. But until then there would be women and men like Hanne and Alan, who were imperfect and had no path toward perfection.

Be Strong, Be brave, Be True. Endure

He had had a dream, and dreams are heavy things, requiring constant care and pruning.

What had been intriguing on Monday and Tuesday was approaching annoying by Wednesday and exasperating by Thursday.

To struggle is to strengthen my faith, my hope and my belief in humanity.

This book is a form of struggle, and it keeps my spirit alive to struggle.

It is very much, she thinks, like looking at the moon and knowing one could make it there, too. It is only time and breath that stand between her and the top. She is young. She'll do it and have done it.

Look at us, goddammit, the two of us slingshotted from the back side of the moon, greedily cartwheeling toward everything we are owed.

Courage was the beginning, being unafraid, moving ahead, through small hardships, not turning back. Courage was simply a form of moving forward.

Courage was simply a form of moving forward.

This book is a form of struggle, and it keeps my spirit alive to struggle. To struggle is to strengthen my faith, my hope and my belief in humanity.

she knew he would not rest until he had done it. It was maddening. It was strange, even. But then again, she thought, it gave their marriage a certain epic scope.

Friday, when everything looks dark—like Jesus hanging on the cross—but Sunday's coming. Sunday's a-comin', chil'. Sunday's always coming for them that love God. Know what I'm saying?

Adherence to established values, an affinity to creativity. Perseverance and innovation. The dualities of a hardness like stone and the pliancy of the wind-bent bamboo, these twin qualities flux and twine through the persona of the master and give him the presence and personality by which we know him.