Quotes About Perseverance

One door away from heaven And the key is ours to lose. One door away from heaven But oh, the entry dues.

It's only life. We all get through it.

Sometimes, just trying was a triumph.

It's so damn hard to bloom... to change. Even when you want to change, want it more than anything in the world, it's hard. Desire to change isn't enough. Or desperation. Couldn't be done without...love

we are in this boot camp to learn, that if we don't persevere through all this world's obstacles and all its wounds, we won't earn our next life of great adventure.

The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world.--Odd Thomas

Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith...

We who survive must go on in the names of those who fall, but if we dwell too much on the vivid details of what we've witnessed of man's inhumanity to man, we simply can't go on. Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

One can either despair and perish or be cheerful and persevere.

Fact: No matter how smart and courageous and well-intentioned you are, there's always a chance that you would not become the person you envisioned yourself being, because your own mind or body could fail you.

In the belly of Leviathan, Mr Thomas, one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope

Don't look back, something may be gaining on you.

Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.

I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there were degrees of it to which I chose not to subject myself.

Delayed gratification. Yeah, it makes things sweeter. Wait too long, and what was sweet and creamy can turn sour.

She wasn't clay in the hands of others; she was rock, and with her own determined hands, she could sculpt the person that she wanted to be.

Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.

I can do what I need to do. I can get where I want to go, no matter how hard it is.

Adversity breeds toughness, and the tough succeed. And survive.

Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others—and I am one of those—never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It's not a question of courage. It's something constitutional, an inability to let go. It may be nothing more than life-hungry stupidity.

The voice said, "I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare. I will beat the odds, as great as they are. I have survived so far, miraculously. Now I will turn miracle into routine. The amazing will be seen every day. I will put in all the hard work necessary. Yes, so long as God is with me, I will not die. Amen.

hole. The temperature climbed.

Be daunted, but not defeated.