Quotes About Perseverance

I reply, with all the firmness at my command, that I have certain duties to perform. They may not be spectacular, but they are my small contribution to our war effort . . . and Betty must be educated. . . . Guthrie says, "Why must she be educated? I hate well-educated women, they are always boring.

You can't get anything worth having for nothing," Darnay declared, offering his guest a fill of tobacco from his pouch, "and faith is worth having—it's the only thing that can save us now, when the whole world has straws in its hair. Faith is worth working for." Bulloch considered this while he filled his pipe. "To

Sister Ferguson's method of dealing with misfortunes was to "wash them out". You never got anywhere if you sat down and brooded and felt sorry for yourself. The thing to do was to pretend you didn't care . . . then, after a bit, you found the pretence was true.

You've got to accept the good and the bad in life and make the best of them. I don't mean you should knuckle down—anything but! I mean it's no good trying to row against the tide.

Often and often the slow difficult tears formed upon my lids and were brushed hastily aside lest they should fall upon my ledger and leave immortal trace of my weakness and misery. But that has passed, and now I am resigned to the life; I even find pleasure in it. The books—I have always loved books and I love them better now—are my greatest solace.

Bear them we can, and if we can we must.

R. L. S. put it like this: 'Let it be enough for faith that the whole creation groans in mortal frailty, strives with unconquerable constancy.

Life has dealt her some hard blows; she has accepted them and made the best of things. She does not expect Fate to be kind.

so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us." Esther knew only too well that the weight she carried was too much anxiety and her besetting sin was too little faith, so the verse was peculiarly applicable to her.

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

I was exhausted. Fighting to save the universe will do that.

Good stuff doesn't just happen. You have to fight for it.

I can't let that happen again. The stakes are way too high. I know that, now more than ever. If there's anything good that came from my failure on First Earth, it's that I have now totally given myself over to being a Traveler.

We may not have made our grand statement, but we will still have our battle. We are armed with tak and we will triumph. Your efforts have been in vain. The battle is about to begin.

There are no problems, only challenges. - Uncle Press

Then what have you proved?" I asked. "Only that people will always try to make a better life for themselves.

My life has been defined by a series of failures.

Defeat is always devastating. But it is never more crushing than when it comes after you believe you have won.

Saint Dane was right. Hope is a fragile thing. It's easy to lose, but it's possible to get it back. And I got it back.

There was no joy here. There was only the sad business of survival.

I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.

The existence of another, competing translation is a good thing, in general, and only immediately discouraging to one person - the translator who, after one, two, or three years of more or less careful work, sees another, and perhaps superior, version appear as if overnight.

My grandma was really sick when I was working on 'Sin Nombre' and eventually died that summer when we were finishing the film. But I was able to bring an unfinished version of the film for her to watch.

We need you. The best version of you. You're here for a reason, and we can't wait to see what that is. Stay in your lane. Run that race.