Quotes About Perseverance

a minha vida é o esforço de mostrar a uns e a outros que há sempre lugar para o talvez.

Nem tudo na vida é doloroso ou inviável.

Job was still in God's will even when he lost his children, wealth, and health.

There is always a Ziklag battle before a Zion victory.

Everyone who runs the race can have a special level of grace.

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

I don't have the average thirty-eight year-old's body. I know my face looks old, but if you slid head first for sixteen years you'd be ugly too.

I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon

What you lost weakened you, could kill you. What you wanted kept you going. What you wanted gave you strength.

Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?

You throw yourself on the world like turf on a fire.

Come up fish. Come to Quint.

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

At the end of the day the fence were still not complete but my family had witnessed my new strength and they I could be the man

Don Light talks ... ... The Marines help teach you patience, and patience is a virtue. My old friend Les Beasley was in the Marines, too. When we first got in the Marines, they gave us these little white pills, so we wouldn't think about girls. Not long ago, Les told me that his little white pills had just started working. See, patience.

Lithuanians and it would take more than

I will always have doubts...But I will always overcome them.

Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome.

And at the end of every single day, I stood on the edge of a cliff and stared at the drop and kept trying to find the inner strength to jump off it. Every. Damned. Day. I wrestled with the question of whether to keep on living my lousy existence or simply putting an end to it. For three months. And every day I discovered that ending my life was not an acceptable solution.

the point is that every fight is worth fighting. Even the hopeless ones.

Anyone can fight a battle that's easy to win. It's fighting the battles that are impossible to win that causes humanity to take those great leaps forward.

little bit. There're two ways to respond to them, Jean-Luc: either roll over and give them what they want, or fight them no matter what the risk. Which option are you going to embrace!?

he was literally holding his face together.

History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.