Quotes About Perseverance

Sometimes, everything in the world seems to be lined up against you. All the evidence says you ought to run the other way. Make the bravest choice, not the safest. It's not the best advice, but it's all I have to offer

Being a McKettrick meant claiming a piece of ground to stand on and putting your roots down deep into it. Holding on, no matter what came at you. It meant loving with passion and taking the rough spots with the smooth. It meant fighting for what you wanted, letting go when that was the best thing to do.

But we do have other choices, my dear. We can turn our backs on all that we know is right, sit ourselves down, fold our hands and allow wickedness to go unchallenged and therefore to prevail. We can run away and hide. Or we can stand our ground and fight inequality to our last heartbeat, knowing that if we perish, we have done all that we could and others will carry on, just as those who came before us have done.

It is struggle that strengthens and makes us aware, that tempers the spirit and opens the mind's eye.

Being able to say "I'll try again" is one of the deepest expressions of faith in oneself. When

I think that if we just listen to ourselves we know what it is we have to do . . . . And I have come o think that however much it hurts, however hard it is, we have to listen. We have to live our lives.

No!" Nellie said fiercely. "I got into it because of the money. But now --

One step at a time... one day at a time. Just today-just this day to get through... Salva told himself this every day. He told the boys in the group, too. And one day at a time, the group made it's way to Kenya. More than twelve hundred boys arrived safely. It took them a year and a half.

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One step at a time . . . one day at a time. Just today—just this day to get through

Stay calm when things are hard or not going right with you. You will get through it when you persevere instead of quitting. Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope. Salva Dut Rochester, New York 2010

A step at a time. One problem at a time—just figure out this one problem. Day by day, solving one problem at a time, Salva moved toward his goal.

To young people, I would like to say: Stay calm when things are hard or not going right with you. You will get through it when you persevere instead of quitting. Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope.

Quitting leads to much less happiness in life than perseverance and hope.

Heather learned from her immigrant parents not to complain, not to look back, not to blame others, not to be weighed down by regret, but instead to put her head down, work relentlessly, and soldier ahead.

I deserve a year, two years, to live my own self into being." Depressing

We've survived the Black Plague, the Titanic, and Pearl Harbor just to name a few. Not to mention the Disco Period.

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Starting your own business is like riding a roller coaster. There are highs and lows and every turn you take is another twist. The lows are really low, but the highs can be really high. You have to be strong, keep your stomach tight, and ride along with the roller coaster that you started.

Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn't leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done.

We managed to make a good night of it, in the desperate way people do when the choice is between dogged survival or sliding under the morass.

I don't abandon stories once I've started working on them. Once I sit down and start a story, I'll be damned if I'm going to give up on it. But I do reject most of the ideas for stories that I come up with.

Having achieved limited success under difficult circumstances (wrong boy, wrong mouth, sticky bus floor, lingering aroma of someone's forgotten banana, two girls--Miranda and Amy--not even bothering to pretend not to watch over the back of the next seat), Clementine felt adequately prepared for the real thing.

As a species, the only way we're going to have a better world is by solving the harder problems.