Quotes About Perseverance

but she beat that voice down and stomped on it with imaginary work boots. Those steel-toed monsters were good for something.

Why do people stay together? Putting aside 'for the sake of the children', and 'the habit of years' and 'economic reasons' as lawyers' nonsense – it's not much more – if one really does try to find out why it is that people don't leave each other, one discovers a mystery.

Victoria Hislop

Why should this happen to me when I planned and worked… and came so far?

We are born, we suffer, we love, we die, but the waves continue to beat upon the rocks; the seed time and the harvest come and go, but the earth remains.

A man condemns himself to failure if he thinks that he won't succeed.

Even when a situation felt impossible, I learned not to give up. Instead of escaping into the relief that distraction would bring, I found that there was an absolute beauty in facing what is hard, or sad, and trying to change it.

I'd sacrificed my sense of self in the hope that somehow it would pay off,

knew that I was scrappy enough to learn the role and do it well.

And I suppose that's kind of poetic, because if you're going to get royally screwed, it might as well be on hump day.

Noam wouldn't die. He couldn't. Dara wouldn't let him.

You should get out of range. You don't want to get caught up in this." He was right. But Dara didn't move. "I'm staying with you," Dara said. "Until the end.

This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

But I think I understand now what Shackleton said yesterday, how hero is not always doing something grand. It's when things get so bad, and you keep on anyway.

A novel is something that stands at the end of a lengthy process called writing. It is not a preexisting Platonic form embedded within the writer... I do not have a Boston marathon inside me waiting to get out. The marathon is a peak experience I am rightly entitled to only as the culmination of years of regular training and love of running.

I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream.

I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.

Always resent, never relent.

This feat I also had no idea how to accomplish, but ignorance had never stopped me from taking action before.

This was what few people realize—it's hard work to beat somebody. I have known many an interrogator who has strained a back, pulled a muscle, torn a tendon or a ligament, even broken fingers, toes, hands, and feet, not to mention going hoarse.

We lie in wait for the right moment and the just cause, which, at this moment, is simply wanting to live.

cheered by the optimism that one sometimes had at the beginning of strenuous exercise, a kind of helium that filled our lungs and carried us along

By now the only part of me not seating were my eyeballs... An X-ray of my skull would have shown a hamster running furiously in an exercise wheel...