Quotes About Perseverance

What's left of you when your arm can't even put on a jacket and your leg can't even take a step and your neck can't straighten up enough to let you show your face to the world, what's left? Are you your brain, which keeps sending out orders that won't be fol- lowed? Or are you the thought itself, something that can't be seen or touched beyond that furrowed organ guarded inside the cranium like a trove?

Y me sorprendió esa complementariedad que manteníamos a pesar de no entender por qué seguíamos juntos. Funcionábamos como si se hubiera perdido casi todo lo que alguna vez nos sostuvo, excepto la minuciosa y tácita distribución de roles y tareas que seguía apuntalando lo que habíamos armado juntos con voluntad más que con cualquier otra pasión o sentimiento.

tuvo que meter las manos en el barro, en la inmundicia, para hacer lo que había que hacer, sin cometer ni delito ni pecado, ésa soy yo.

La memoria de los detalles, Elena sabe, es sólo para gente valiente, y ser cobarde o valiente no puede elegirse.

And as light as the rain seems, it still rains down on you.

a friend once told you there exists the medical term—John Henryism—for people exposed to stresses stemming from racism. They achieve themselves to death trying to dodge the buildup of erasure.

it is a clean displacement of effort, will, and disappointment.

No one can get behind the feeling that caused a pause in the match, not even the player trying to put her feelings behind her, dumping ball after ball into the net. Though you can retire with an injury, you can't walk away because you feel bad.

Sitting there staring at the closed garage door you are reminded that a friend once told you there exists the medical term - John Henryism - for people exposed to the stresses stemming from racism. They achieve themselves to death trying to dodge the buildup of erasure.

the daily diminishment is a low flame, a constant drip.

Exactly why we survive and can look back with furrowed brow is beyond me.

The head's ache evaporates into a state of numbness, a cave of sighs. Over the years you lose the melodrama of seeing yourself as a patient. The sighing ceases; the headaches remain. You hold your head in your hands. You sit still.

Sitting there staring at the closed garage door you are reminded that a friend once told you there exists the medical term--John Henryism--for people exposed to stresses stemming from racism. They achieve themselves to death trying to dodge the buildup of erasure.

I had been told by a number of people that if you get half of what you want on your first album, you're doing really well. Pretty much every single thing they had was something that I liked. There were maybe one or two songs I didn't like, and they were taken off the album quickly.

The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall.

My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage.

For Martin, social justice would not "roll in on the wings of inevitability" but would come through struggle and sacrifice. *

The hot water that softens a carrot will harden an egg.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.

I will warm the great outdoors for the whole of January if I can.

But if you have a solid walk with the Lord, then you won't fear that failure.

And also don't forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.

the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.