Quotes About Perseverance

She looked straight ahead at the briskly working windshield wipers. The windshield was just like the never-ending cycles of her mind. Confusion. Clear. Confusion. Clear. Confusion. Clear.

refusing to give him the satisfaction.

And yet here she was. There was nothing else to do, nowhere else to turn. "Goddamn it," she said, and turned

They should move gingerly through their days, as if they had spinal cord injuries.

It was so easy to forget how bad things were. Like winter. Like the flu. Like childbirth.

Sometimes it felt like Zoe was just waiting out her life now, enduring it, ticking off events and days and months and years, as if she just had to get herself through something unspecified and then things would be better except she never got through it and it never got better and she would never forgive him.

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.

What are you doing?" he asked. "If it's anything like what I just came through, it's impossible." That set me. "Impossible?" This was the whole point of all the work and energy I'd put into the past five years. Everything aimed toward one thing: Iditarod. I lifted the snow hook. "Okay, gang. Let's go.

I had never thought much about being the first woman to win the race. I thought of myself as just a sled dog racer, not a woman sled dog racer. But there was no denying that if my winning encouraged other women not to underestimate themselves, then I was happy to have helped.

I can't believe it. I'm speechless. It is amazing to see where I've come from the last two years.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

I seen nights full of pain, days of the same.

And if you come up from under that water and theres fresh air, just breathe baby, Gods got a blessin to spare. I know the process is so much stress but its the progress that feels the best. I came from the projects straight to success and youre next, just try, they cant steal your pride, its inside. Then find it and keep on grindin cause in every dark cloud theres a silver linin. I know.

I search, but never find. Hurt, but never cry. I work and forever tired.

You cant get on my level. you gon need a space shuttle or a ladder. thats forever.

I think about more than I forget, but I dont go around fire expecting not to sweat.

Flyer than the rest but I dont rest I keep goin.

Shawty like a valet service. I swear she been through a lot.

I told my niggas we would see better yesterday, today is a better day, celebrate.

All these bitches and niggas still hatin. I use to be ballin but now Im bill gatin.

I think positively, you cant harm me mentally, not physically, not spiritually, youll never get rid of me.

Im a made nigga, I should dust somethin. You niggas on the bench, like the bus comin.

Throw dirt on me, and grow a wild flower.