Quotes About Perseverance

You've rowed again?' I can hear the disapproval in her voice. 'Em … you can't go on like this.

Faith isn't really faith until it's beat up and put through a fire. When you're crushed, you feel like you're dying. But you're actually coming to life. When you're broken, that's when the best of you comes out.

At first, I struggled with some of the bigger words, but Kinsella kept his fingernail under each, patiently, until I guessed it or half-guessed it and then I did this by myself until I no longer needed to guess, and read on. It was like learning to ride the bike; I felt myself taking off, the freedom of going places I couldn't have gone before, and it was easy.

When he reached the yard gate and found the padlock seized with frost, he felt the strain of being alive and wished he had stayed in bed, but he made himself carry on and crossed to a neighbour's house, whose light was on.

We must be doing something right.' 'Tis mostly your doing,' Furlong admitted. 'Where am I ever only away all day then home to the table and up to bed and gone again before they rise.

What was it all for? Furlong wondered. The work and the constant worry. Getting up in the dark and going to the yard, making the deliveries, one after another, the whole day long, then coming home in the dark and trying to wash the black off himself and sitting into a dinner at the table and falling asleep before waking in the dark to meet a version of the same thing, yet again.

Where does thinking get us?' she said. 'All thinking does is bring you down. <...> If you want to get on in life there's things in life you have to ignore so that you can keep on.

It would be the easiest thing in the world to lose everything.

Life's funny. You have to find a way to keep going, to keep laughing, even after you realize that none of your dreams will come true. When you realize that, there's still so much of a life to get through.

Birdwatching will never yield instant gratification. It depends on acceptance and patience...

Then you fail. And you try again. You keep at it, despite failing, or because of failing, if that makes sense. It's like creating that perfect recipe. You rework and rework and rework it until you get it right.

Yeah, you have to struggle, and yeah, sometimes you fail, but how you react to that failure is where the choice comes in. You can either get pissed and give up, or you can ask yourself, 'How can I make it better?

everyone is scared sometimes to do something. They don't think they can do it. They don't want to fail. They don't want to make a fool of themselves. That's when the courage really kicks in.

The people who succeed are the ones who think through what they really want from the experience and then work incredibly hard, day after day, to attain their goals. They don't just flop around like fish out of water. They have a vision, and they work their asses off to make it a reality.

He could take on anything and everything, it seemed, rather than leave himself time to reflect on his dissatisfaction with his life and what he might do about it

My life was a sort of series of random disasters.

Setback is like Grandma's muffins.

Wait on no mood.

Instead of regretting what we cannot do, it is better to do anything we can do. Even if what we do does not bring us to our goal, it brings us much closer to it.

You can't know now what the results will be in the future. So for now, don't even think about it. Think about what you want to do and what you can do. That's very different from 'running away'. What do you want to do?

The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.

Still, smiles followed tears; they kept working and Jessy kept trying, and together they moved forward.

Anna and Diana were the bravest and the toughest and the most successful.

Clara Claiborne Park