Quotes About Perseverance

How could you get past a splinter that had worked into your eye and scratched deeper every time you blinked?

Erase everything you have written, Mandelstam says, but keep the notes in the margin.

Life is not a destination; it is a journey. Faith makes everything possible. In order to succeed in life, we must first believe that we can.

But just because you have a bad season doesn't mean you stop planting.

The government people wanted us to believe there was something wrong with her. Because she was strong. Because she stood up for what she believed. Times were hard, but she was still Mom, and she refused to let anyone reduce her.

I know without knowing: the man in that tree was a proud black man. Uppity, some might say. Out of his place, some might say. Too smart for his own good. I can hear the words, see those pink lips moving, spitting the words that promised his death. His back never bent underneath it, and they hated that most. I know plenty.

Nothing to do but just keep moving, keep stepping. Don't stop, or it'll catch you. If it catches you, it's over, the dance is done, and there's nothing left but to lie down and close your eyes. So just keep moving.

Trying best is enough.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.

We carried on like that through letters and phone calls for the next two years. And things didn't change when Aimable graduated as a doctor of veterinary medicine

La fe mueve montañas Immaculée, pero si fuera fácil tener fe, ya habrían desaparecido todas las montañas. Confía en mí y puedes estar segura que jamás te abandonaré. Confía en mí y no temas. Confía en mí y yo te salvaré. Pondré mi cruz sobre la puerta, y ellos no podrán llegar a dónde tú estás. Confía en mí y vivirás.

Then Jesus spoke: "Mountains are moved with faith, Immaculee, but if faith were easy, all the Mountains would be gone".

Mountains are moved with faith, Immaculee, but if faith were easy, all the mountains would be gone.

They can only kill us once.

I realized that my battle to survive this war would have to be fought inside of me.

Out of wood so crooked and perverse as that which man is made of, nothing absolutely straight can ever be wrought.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

I mention to him that I am fasting, but planning to take a day off. He cautions me to think about this very carefully. "If you take a day off, you'll have a day's guilty pleasure, which won't last long. But if you keep all thirty fasts, imagine how happy you will feel. What an achievement that will be.

If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience.

It is not defeat that destroys you,it is being demoralized by defeat that destroy you.

I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing,I think that really is the key.

Never give up, no matter how hard life gets no matter how much pain you feel. Pain will eventually subside, nothing remains forever, so keep going and don't give up.

My Pakistanis, you have not left me alone and I promise, I will never leave you alone in sha Allah