Quotes About Perseverance

fight for me. Prove to me that you're worthy of all the faith I have in you.

When Addie had signed up for this course she'd been determined to do whatever it took to get through with a passing grade. She hadn't expected to enjoy it or even learn from it. Yet the novel they were studying was filled with life lessons that seemed to apply directly to her.

Once she had her mind set on something she became an unstoppable force, forging ahead.

Isn't that the way life goes? Just when everything seems perfect and nothing could possibly go wrong, then, boom, you're tossed onto your butt, wondering what in the name of heaven happened.

Live. Do whatever possible to stay alive. I'll be waiting. Praying, faithful. Just live. - Jo Marie Rose, Silver Linings

PEOPLE ARE LIKE TEA BAGS—YOU HAVE TO DROP THEM IN HOT WATER BEFORE YOU KNOW HOW STRONG THEY ARE.

What the people around me failed to understand was that my life as I'd known it, as I'd wanted it, as I'd dreamed it, was over. The only way I could achieve fulfillment was to find myself a new one.

Each one of us hauled rocks on our backs, some larger than others, I realized. Some people had grown so accustomed to the extra weight that they no longer seemed aware of the baggage.

So for anybody who feels guilty that they're taking time away from their family, or the cost of what they are doing, they should not feel guilty, because they are contributing [...] they are teaching what it means to have a dream and to be passionate about something. Nothing of value comes easy.

People who say they don't have enough patience to knit are precisely those who could most improve their lives by learning how!" —Sally Melville

All right, why the glum face now? I get that you messed up, but you need to pick yourself up and move on.

Yet life continues to move forward, and so have I, dragging from one day into the next until I found I could breathe normally.

People from all over asked him what he'd found the hardest.

We're each our own person, we live our own lives, make our own mistakes, learn from them, and move forward.

giving up smoking was difficult.

Debbie Macomber

Just remember we can accomplish all things with the power of God.

We and all the others and everyone—regardless of the lives we'd led, and more than anything else, and beyond the agonies and dangers that attend every act and action of ours in this life, we all wanted to live. And that desire, if not the result, is something to think about.

If I've learned anything in the twenty-five years that have transpired between graduation and today it is this: I am stronger than I thought I was and weaker than I'd hoped to be, and in between those two extremes is a little thing called life.

She doesn't know where she is going. She doesn't know when the next demons will appear. But she will keep on walking. She will follow the moon.

These are unusual times. They call for ordinary people to do unusual things, just to get by.

We have to remember this," Parvana said. "When things get better and we grow up, we have to remember that there was a day when we were kids when we stood in a graveyard and dug up bones to sell so that our families could eat.

Like it or not, you need to know how to do this. Your future depends on it. You give up on this, you will give up on the next difficult thing, and you are too smart and too strong to start giving up.

We have to remember this," Parvana said. "When things get better and we grow up, we have to remember that there was a day when we were kids when we stood in a graveyard and dug up bones to sell so that our families could eat. Will anyone believe us? No. But we will know it happens