Quotes About Perseverance

Believe me, you still have a long way to fall, a very long way.

Joel Bandiri

stamps, paintings—not least of all because he was eighty-nine and had spent his life learning.

They were good at enduring: adversity was the touchstone by which they proved their value to themselves.

No one'll break your heart faster or into more pieces than a Sherpa will.

She stiffened her resolve with a line of Eliot's verse: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.

Miracles were not given, they were earned.

THE WORLD IS FULL of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.

actually Dorian Purcell.

The cold tide of evil rises relentlessly. Although the dikes that resist it can be built higher, the power of such an insistent tide is greater even than the power of a deep sea of water; though perhaps nothing can stand against Evil forever, there is at least a kind of honor in undertaking the effort to restrain the ultimate flood as long as possible.

Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of a deep hole. The second hand was faith—the faith that her hope would be borne out;

As long as we're not soaked in blood and trying to stuff our intestines back into our bodies through a gut wound, we'll be okay.

indomitability.

Teach us… To give and not to count the cost; To fight and not to heed the wounds; To toil and not to seek for rest… —St. Ignatius Loyola

She can be bent so severely that it doesn't seem as though she can ever straighten herself out again, but she always does. She gets on with getting on.

Ms. Kate DiCamillo

Life is so fragile and uncertain that every daybreak is a miracle, almost a triumph.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The thing to understand is that you have to do what you have to do, always and without complaint. That's the way.

There is something sacred about great suffering, and it is the sacredness that makes the pain endurable.

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose. —ANNE BRONTË, "The Narrow Way

In this crazy future tumbling like an avalanche straight at us, the ambitions of two people didn't amount to a hill of beans.

Earth's creatures other than humankind. Their lives are short and hard and ever shadowed by threat, and they endure periods of hunger when in their foraging they find nothing, and they persevere through sickness without understanding what it is they suffer, and they have seen others devoured by something bigger with sharper teeth. Yet in spite of all they have to fear, they sleep as if they are safe when unconscious, and they wake to each new day with enthusiasm.

Megan Bookman's