Quotes About Perseverance

It was all right for life not to be perfect. If you let it, if you didn't close yourself off from the chance for it, life could still be good. Better than good.

In my multifold years of life, I have learned that most people get along as best they can. They don't intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving

This poem is endless, the odds against us are endless, our chances of being alive together statistically nonexistent;

Lisi Harrison

Lisi Harrison

If at first you don't succeed, You're not an Alpha

I think readers appreciate those of us who stay in the trenches and fight the good fight even when times get tough. I know that I, personally, lost respect for writers who, when there was a downturn in the market, started shouting from the rooftops that they wrote thrillers and suspense novels rather than horror. As far as I'm concerned, those wussboys should sever all ties with the horror community if that's the way they feel and get out of the way so real horror writers can do their work.

I write what I want to write. Period. I don't write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don't write suspense novels or thrillers. I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I'll just keep writing them until they do sell--and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime.

Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of the most misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.

My view is rather than just rage at your impotence you find the best way of achieving as much as you can within whatever constraints there are. It's not the world I would have created but you do what you can within it.

We can endure neither our evils nor their cures.

In this life, this is how one must wait, past despair, the heart a fossil, the minutes molten, the feet turned to stone.

Hard times are purposeful, meant to refine and redirect us. They're not arbitrary or random, and they're definitely not cruel.

Wise is the woman who rises above her circumstances.

As the sun moves higher in the cloudless sky, all the verses regarding seedtime and harvest come to mind, especially this one, which suits our hard-working Ruth: "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."26

Loving someone is kind of like offering forgiveness. There's no guarantee that they're not going to hurt you again. You can't promise perfection. But you choose to love and you choose to forgive, because living in fear of being hurt again is just a facsimile of life.

the last ones there at this rate." As we swam, one thought propelled me forward: Aaron

If you are going through hell, keep going. WINSTON CHURCHILL

Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting.

Things are looking better already. If you think you have come to an unhappy ending, it is not the true end. Keep going awhile.

If you think you have come to an unhappy ending, it is not the true end. Keep going awhile.

you think you have come to an unhappy ending, it is not the true end. Keep going awhile.

Greg made us see, after an enormous amount of effort, that if a (sane) guy really likes you, there ain't nothing that's going to get in his way. And if he's not sane, why would you want him?

One hundred percent of all human beings need hope to get by. And if any statistic takes that away from you, then it's not worth knowing. And