Quotes About Perseverance

You will be his pillar of strength!" Julie prompted. "That is a vile cliché, and I will not say that.

I am still trying to glue together the broken pieces of this person I love. He manages his tortured side with remarkable skill, but even Chris, with his endless supply of strength and clarity, could not survive all that he did without scars.

Everything will be okay. Good things last, and the bad things will fade away. So, go find your good.

We eat. We sleep. We keep going.

Life is not fair, but it is what we have to deal with. And we are going to deal with it so that we can live. No, so that we can thrive.

You can't drown when you know how to float." Chris says nothing for a few minutes. "Maybe. But the water is pretty calm today. There could always be a storm." He rubs my shoulders. He breathes against me. He waits. "It's hard to float in a storm.

There is so much gray between the black and the white and this is where most of us live, trying, but so often failing, to bend towards the light.

Whatever you are going through, the sun will come out.

How can I be my best if I never fail, and how can I ever find peace if I never yell.

We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you live in

I might have said no, I might have just stayed put. But something's telling me to push past the barrier of my life

And she refused to go to that miserable place he had dragged her to so many times, to hope for a thing that was unchangeable.

Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end. "Gogol

Whenever he is discouraged, I tell him that if I can survive on three continents, then there is no obstacle he cannot conquer.

She wished the days and months ahead of her would end. But the rest of her life continued to present itself, time ceaselessly proliferating.

She wanted to shut her eyes to it. She wished the days and months ahead of her would end. But the rest of her life continued to present itself, time ceaselessly proliferating. She was made to anticipate it against her will.

But I remind myself that he has a father who is still living, a mother who is happy and strong. Whenever he is discouraged, I tell him that if I can survive on three continents, then there is no obstacle he cannot conquer.

And she refused to go to that miserable place that Julian had dragged her to so many times, to hope for a thing that was unchangeable.

Stretched to the breaking point by all that now stood between them, but at the same time refusing to break.

Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.

It takes courage to look like an idiot possibly and fall and fail but that's what it takes to learn to succeed so you have to be willing to practice or rehearse to work your risk muscle.

To never aspire to excellence means to never fully comprehend the amount of work required to achieve it.

I think that what happens in my poetic work in the future will depend on my being knocked in the face, and thrown flat, and given cancer, and all kinds of other things short of senile dementia.

I think the hardest thing for a person is to know what those twelve things are that they need to work on that will bring the return of success to their life.