Quotes About Perseverance

Harriet] hated math. She hated math with every bone in her body. She spent so much time hating it that she never had time to do it.

Life is a struggle and a good spy goes in there and fights.

Well, I'm going to be a writer. And when I say that's a mountain, that's a mountain.

Learning is making mistakes until our subconscious mind can put together the right pictures.

Impatience is only another form of resistance. It

old saying, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again," is so true. It doesn't mean beat yourself up and try the same old way again. It means recognize your error and try another way — until you learn to do it correctly.

Author Elisabeth Kübler-Ross reminds us, "Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their carvings.

Six Stars,' he exclaimed. 'Finding the right words is hard!

Gabri and I follow the way of Häagen Das. It's occasionally a rocky road.

To remain conscious and continent was her new goal.

It was one thing to forgive, it was another to climb back into the cage with that bear, even if it was wearing a tutu and smiling.

Annie laughed. She had a face, a body, made not for a Paris runway but for good meals and books by the fire and laughter. She was constructed from, and for, happiness. But it had taken Annie Gamache a long while to find it. To trust it.

All will be as it should, if we just do our best.

There seems such a fine line between falling into place and falling apart.

I saw a lot of men die there. Most men. Do you know what killed them?"…"Despair," said Finney. "They believed themselves to be prisoners. I lived with those men, ate the same maggot-infested food, slept in the same beds, did the same back-breaking work. But they died and I lived. Do you know why?" "You were free." "I was free. Milton was right…the mind is its own place. I was never a prisoner. Not then, not now.

There is always a road back. If we have the courage to look for it, and take it.

Do you know, Armand, I can't remember the last time I felt safe." "I know what you mean," said Gamache. "It feels as though this has been going on forever." "No, I don't mean just this mess. I mean all my life.

He was drawn to the edge of things. To the places old mariners knew, and warned, "Beyond here be monsters."… He stepped into the beyond, and found the monsters hidden deep inside all the reasonable, gentle, laughing people. He went where even they were afraid to go.

When a woman commits to something she does it with both her heart and her head. Very powerful.

After all, it's how the light gets in.

Sometimes the only way up is down. Sometimes the only way forward is to back up.

We can all fall," said the abbot. "But perhaps not as hard and not as fast and not as far as someone who spends his life on the ascent.

Living in the wreckage of her future sure took the joy out of the present.

Joy doesn't ever leave, you know. It's always with you. And one day you'll find it again.