Quotes About Perseverance

I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I'm always itching to get back in the car. It's going to get harder, so I've got to make sure that I'm doing everything I possibly can do to make sure I can start next season how I ended this season.

I love camping. I hate camping. I can't seem to stop. In case you haven't noticed, campouts hardly ever go the way you want them to go. It doesn't matter if you're glamping or backpacking, on a guided exploration or alone. Chaos finds a way.

Just do it.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'

Do you feel like you've been through a meat grinder or just tumbled around in a cement mixer?

Her father didn't know the half of her problems. Nobody did. Nobody ever would. She couldn't let anyone find out just how crazy she was, the secret she kept. She would fight her way out of that dark hole somehow. She had to, or it would swallow her for good.

Nothing is over until God says it is.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

Stick with me, Miss Lofton. I'm locked, loaded and ready.

But success, she was beginning to realize, was not as much a destination as an endless freeway clogged with hazards.

To be a writer is to embrace rejection as a way of life.

Dana Stabenow

You don't play, you can't win.

He told me patience was the most important thing when you wanted something. He told me not to rush, that rushing just got you nowhere faster.

My mother says that falling in love and getting dumped is good for you because it prepares you for the real thing, like it gets you ready for true love and all, but I'm thinking it's more like climbing up he St. Louis Arch and falling off twice. Does he first fall really get you ready for the second?

Someone came into the room. She heard footsteps, sensed someone looming over her, peeling back the sheet to take her pulse and check the bandage. "She may not make it, sir." "She damn well will make it if I have to cross into the hereafter and drag her back!

And I love you, Gray. I'm sorry I've made your life . . . difficult." "Difficult? You have made it a veritable hell! But it has been quite an adventure, I grant you that. I would not have had it otherwise.

But Gwyneth was determined that this dark angel, this remote but magnificent man she loved, would not die.

Really, Doctor, why do they insist upon giving us such a devil of a time?

Felt his lips, touching her forehead. "You're not going to die, Maeve. You're not going to die, because I am not going to let you die. Do you hear me? And if you give up and abandon me, so help me God, I shall never forgive you.

Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.

Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.

Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.