Quotes About Perseverance

But wishes don't have expiration dates.

After I calmed down a little and had a chance to think, I figured . . . I love you enough to try and deserve you. I would do anything, be anything, for you. Last night I went to your apartment to beg you to give me another chance. I was shaking in my boots, thinking you might not forgive me for Friday night.

It's not really your land," Merripen had told him, "until you've put some of your own blood and sweat into it." "Is that all?" Leo asked sarcastically. "Only blood and sweat? I'm certain I can find one or two other bodily fluids to donate if it's that important." - Merripen & Leo

It is always more difficult for the people who swim against the current, Sophia

you don't believe in marriage ..." " I changed my mind. I figured out the flaw in my reasoning. I told you it was more romantic not to get married, because then you just stay with each other for the good times. But I was wrong. It only means something when you stay during the bad times. For better or worse.

one isn't improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb.

Dear Lord," she said in a strangled whisper. "I can bear it for a while…but please don't let it hurt forever." She was motionless

in my opinion some things about you would not change no matter what has happened to your memory.

Severin is infinitely more experienced at business. However, I tried to compensate with pure stubbornness.

It's no crime to be ambitious, particularly when you've started with nothing.

Thank God you're so stubborn." Devon laughed. "That's the first time you've ever said that to me." "And the last," West assured him.

I'll have you know," Mrs. Church said in amazement, "it took our two stoutest footmen to bring that crate into the house. How did two young ladies manage to carry it away so quickly?" "Sh-sheer determination," Helen wheezed. "All I want in this life," West told Kathleen, "is to see you try to pry that crate away from those two." "I wouldn't dare," she replied, giving up. "They would do me bodily harm.

To Kathleen's surprise, West didn't leave. He returned to the house and went to his room. At least, she thought darkly, he'd made no further attempt to mount a horse while he was drunk, which she supposed put him above her late husband in terms of intelligence.

Maybe when you're married, you'll have a better idea of what desperate lengths you'll go to...for your sake,I hope not.

the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were broken.

Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.

I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am.

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

because that's what you do, you keep trying even when you know the effort is in vain. As

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Vyshe golovy ne prygnesh

Being ostracized was status quo for her. She'd survive.

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

People do not say "failed" any more, Jane thinks. They say other things. A whole movement has risen up to avoid the acknowledgement of failure. People want to learn from failure, they want to embrace it. But failure isn't good, she thinks. If something can be redeemed it isn't really a failure.