Quotes About Perseverance

We're not mortal. We will break you. You're a fragile little thing; we'd hardly need to try. Give up." "Never," I say. He smiles, smug. "Never? Never is like forever - too big for mortals to comprehend.

So much of winning is waiting.

There are so many broken things that I don't know how to fix. But I know how to fight.

Pain makes you strong.

You're unwinding yourself like a spool. What happens when there's no more thread?' 'Then I spin more,' I say, carrying the metaphor. 'Let me help you,' she says, brightening. My brows rise. 'You want to make thread?

You must be strong enough to strike and strike and strike again without tiring. The first lesson is to make yourself that strong. It will hurt. Pain makes you strong.

Just when you think you've sunk as far as it's possible to sink, there's always a lower place. There's always something worse to be scared about.

Human bodies betray us. They get starved and sick and run-down. I know it, and yet there is always so much more to do.

Only Idiots aren't scared of things that are scary.

Not you," he says in a way that sounds a little like a lament. "You never break.

She feels as though she has something to prove at all times. Feels as though she has to earn the crown on her head over and over again.

If fighting breaks out, focus on what's in front of you. Fight your fight," she tells me. "Let someone else worry about theirs.

Since I never intended to quit, it's nice to have someone making all this effort to get me to do something I would have done anyway.

That's what heroes did. They ran straight toward danger and didn't ever give up.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger," Patty added. "My father always said that." Mary laughed. "What doesn't kill you leaves you scarred, wary, and weary.

And I'd learned that maybe that's what life was all about, one thing after another. One small moment. Good or bad.

a person's life can't be defined by one incident. We are the whole of our experiences. We are the warp, and life is the weft, going up and down around us, transforming us in its wake. Each new line adds to the whole . . . adds to our strength.

Holly Jacobs

This ancient Pinto was held together with sheer willpower and a whole lot of prayer. But she wasn't going to let her old jalopy ruin her perfect mood either.

Any family can fall apart, Annie. It's those that manage to stay together after surviving what life throws at them that deserve a little extra respect.

She understood now that knowing when to walk away and when to hunker down and refuse to leave were equally difficult decisions to make in a marriage; that going back didn't have to mean settling; and that the most fulfilling times weren't always before a storm, but sometimes long after the dust had settled, when you were able to lift your chin and see what was left standing so you could wrap yourself around it with all of the wonder it deserved.

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

Guilt is a good friend, isn't it? It will stand at your back when every other friend has abandoned you, and in the face of all reason it will stay by your side, and even when you tell it, "I am moving on now," it will say, "I shall never leave you; never." If only I could find a lover as faithful as guilt.

Every writer has something to say, but those writers whose works endure have dared to say something about the things that frighten them, confuse them, challenge them, and occasionally delight them.