Quotes About Perseverance

Although much that was precious has been taken from me in this life, I have reason to remain an optimist. After the numerous tight scrapes I've been through, by now I should have lost one leg, three fingers, one buttock, most of my teeth, an ear, my spleen, and my sense of fun. But here I am.

Belief and trust, twined together, can meet any danger.

Whatever task you've taken, whatever fight you're facing, you must bring to it nothing less than everything you've got, or otherwise you'll fail for sure and always wonder what might have been if only you had given your all.

Three more words. Be happy. Persevere.

Each life is a spool of thread that unravels through the years, and it is by a thread that we are so perilously suspended.

because those who cower forget how to stand and, in time, can only crawl.

Every failure hollows out my heart a little further, and no success is able to refill any of that emptiness.

When a good woman knows an important thing needs to be done, she won't let death prevent her from doing it.

I didn't think she would willingly give me up to the hulk; but he would break her like a ceramic bank to get at the coins of knowledge that she held.

Life is hard in a world gone wrong.

No matter what happens, disaster piled on calamity, no matter what, everything will be okay in the long run.

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. She

It's only life. We all get through it. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in accidents or altercations, while others skate through years with nothing worse to worry about than an occasional bad-hair day.

Humor, faith, courage, compassion – these don't rot and vanish;

Don't be expectin' milk and honey, and maybe then you'll get yourself some.

I am an optimist about our species. I assume God is, too, for otherwise He would have scrubbed us off the planet a long time ago and would have started over.

That's what life's all about: little by little, day by day, with excruciating stubbornness, each of us learning how to be less screwed up.

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

ravaged kidney; but, God willing, she would be able to enjoy a full life with the one that remained.

My name is Malcolm Pomerantz, and I'm an axe man, though not like those guys on that reality-TV show about loggers.

After you have suffered great losses and know much pain, it is not cowardice to wish to live henceforth with a minimum of suffering. And one form of heroism, about which few if any films will be made, is having the courage to live without bitterness when bitterness is justified, having the strength to persevere even when perseverance seems unlikely to be rewarded, having the resolution to find profound meaning in life when it seems the most meaningless.

You couldn't be afraid of anything if you were sure you could bear the pain it might cause you.

You've got to remember whatever happens-it's only life, we all get through it