Quotes About Perseverance

We have to have a vision for our life, for what we want to become. Most importantly, we have to cher-ish it and hold on tightly to it when circumstances are telling us that we'll never see our vision.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

If you really know what you want out of life, it's amazing how opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out.

They fall and endure. They live.

No great man will ever succeed in life if they do not grind their teeth and take the most dangerous path for the attainment of an end.

You must, however, not lose your sense of humor, which is also a great item in your success. Sense of humor is the counterweight for your misfortunes which you will meet from time to time, from the smallest to the biggest ... If you take anything seriously without any sense of humor and you should happen to fail, it will be the beginning of your downfall.

Serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open your eyes the next morning.

Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.

It was plain to see the toll the extraordinary climb had taken—for an hour after Bandoola reached the top, his legs continued to quiver with involuntary contractions. What a relief

James Howard Williams died during an emergency appendectomy. So accustomed to the burning ache of his ulcer, he mistook the new, sharper agony as more of the same. The man who never spoke of his woes stoically bore the pain of a burst appendix until it was too late.

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Getting hurt physically, failing, persevering, and succeeding (despite overwhelming odds) are key factors in a male's growth toward manhood.

There was a lot more that I wanted to tell her, like that everything in this beautiful treasure house of a world breaks, and sometimes things break so bad all you can do is hope to get your heart to stop bleeding long enough for you to sift through the ashes so you can try to gain some slight understanding. But some things that break real bad can be mended if you're lucky enough to have someone on your side with a ton of glue who won't give up."--Vicki Grove, Everything Breaks

This sort of thing happens with leopards, which is why Dr. MacElroy has big cats in the first place. It started with Rocky, a lion who was brought to him with virtually every bone in his body broken—"pathological fractures caused by rickets." There was a bobcat with a similar story, and Cinder's mother was another. Dr. MacElroy fixes them up, and that's how they become his pets.

God's got a plan, and I'm going to trust Him to execute it. Will it be easy? Not for either of us. But we can handle the tough stuff. We've trained for it our whole lives.

What I learnt from that was that the exhaustion that pain brings arises because we resist it. The thing is to learn to go with the pain, to ride it.

That's what hiding away did, whether it was from the world or yourself, your past, or even your dreams. It took absolutely no effort to have a miserable life. But building a glorious one? A life worth living and sharing with others? That's what was hard." Joanna

life lingers through hurdles,but it actually trains you to the best.

It ain't ever over. You can't have no future if you don't have no past, and the past ain't never done with you.

There were times when I thought I would never own a car.

What is to give light must endure burning.

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how".

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.