Quotes About Perseverance

The greatness of man lies in the decision to be stronger than his condition.

In the information age, the barriers just aren't there," he said. "The barriers are self-imposed. If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on, and the dedication to go through with it. We slept on floors. We waded across rivers.

You've got to have the emotional understanding that you can make the right play time and time again," he would say, "but you can still lose. And even if you lose four times in a row, you're still supposed to make the same play the fifth time. It's a very easy concept in theory, but in practice it's much harder, especially when you see people making bad moves and they win. You have to do the right move all the time." Once

I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.

You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.

There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.

Which is more stubborn, the love or the two arguing people caught within it?

You could be the leaf that never falls from the tree you could be the sun that never leaves the sky this might be the happy ending without the ending this might be a reason to try

When you need to hold onto something, you should. Whatever gets you through, take it.

It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day without another familiar face staring back. It turns your heart into a purposeless muscle.

Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah

Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.

You spend so much time, so much effort, trying to hold yourself together. And then everything falls apart anyway.

She is carrying herself through the day, and it's not an easy task.

I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to do it. I'd climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward. To watch over the world, and to be alone with myself. That, I found, was what I needed.

Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together

I know the odds are all against me and I know you might not feel this way too but I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you

My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.

We know that some of you are still scared. We know that some of you are still silent. Just because it's better now doesn't mean that it's always good.

Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.

I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.

Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough.

traverse , v. You started to cry, and I quickly said, No -- I mean this part is over. We have to get to the next part. And you said, I'm not sure we can. Without even having to think about it, I replied, Of course we can. How can you be so sure? you asked. And I said, I'm sure. Isn't that enough?

But you have to figure that if it's too hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go.