Quotes About Perseverance

Sheer obstinacy is far more durable than courage, though it's not as pretty.

The very insurmountability of the task, its very unattractiveness, was in the end what attracted me to it.

They drummed into you that pain was good, you were supposed to go with it, push into the pain, and only... now... did I contemplate what retarded advice this was.

I can't imagine that I'm supposed to get over it , like hopping a low stone wall; if Thursday was a barrier of some kind, it was made of razor wire, which I did not bound over but thrash through, leaving me in flayed pieces and on the other side of something only in a temporal sense.

A obstinação pura e simples é mais durável que a coragem, embora não seja tão

I did not love running. Here's a pointer for you: no one does. They pretend to, but they are lying. The only good part is having run. In the moment, it's dull and hard as in effortful but not as in difficult to master. It's repetitive. It does not open the floodgates of revelation, as I am you've been led to expect.

Before I found out for myself, I might have imagined that in the aftermath of personal apocalypse, the little bothers of life would effectively vanish. But it's not true. You still feel chills, you still despair when a package is lost in the mail, and you still feel irked to discover you were shortchanged at Starbucks.

And I believe that this terror is precisely what must have snagged me, the way a ledge will tempt one to jump off. The very insurmountability of the task, its very unattractiveness, was in the end what attracted me to it.

did not love running. Here's a pointer for you: no one does. They pretend to, but they're lying. The only good part is having run.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

Mountaineering

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

I shuffle along, letting the current pull me, and i have the sense that I am like a rat caught in a maze of tunnels, moving endlessly toward some promise of...of what? Light? Life? Cheese?

There is nothing more nerve-wracking than being inches from a lifelong goal.

No way through but through...Do the next thing, Gabriella, and then the next, and then the next.

If you are not praying the type of prayers that scare you, your prayers are certainly not frightening our enemy.

I've learned that patience is something you don't "have"; you must create it yourself. It isn't a commodity doled out to all infants in varying amounts at birth. You learn (and earn) patience by making time for it, calming yourself down, relaxing, and letting it happen. The more you practice patience, the more you have. And the more you have, the easier it is to summon when you need it most.

You can't go through life striking out at people who hurt or scare you. All that does is show them that you're weak. It tells them that they've wounded you, and a strong woman never shows her wounds unless it serves a purpose.

your life is what you make of it, with God's grace, the good and the bad.

The most successful people I know do their best work under any conditions, for anyone.

Your daughter works hard every day to harness powerful and unpredictable emotions so that she can get on with doing everything else she means to do.

real bravery is doing what needs to be done, even if what needs to be done terrifies you to the depths of your soul.

Well, here's a little secret, kiddo - that's pretty much how everyone down here feels most of the time. But we keep walking anyway. We just keep moving forward. And if we're lucky, we find some people who don't mind stumbling around with us, and somehow that makes it a little easier to stay on our feet.

The show must go on, even when it's not the show you expected to be in.