Quotes About Perseverance

The moral of the story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it... some stories just don't have a happy ending

As it turns out, public defenders are less Superman and more Sisyphus, and there's no small number of lawyers who wind up crushed under the weight of the infinite caseloads and the crappy hours and the shitty pay.

There were some memories, she knew, you could run from forever and never shake. Josie

I close my eyes, rub my thumb against the bridge of my nose to ward off the headache. Well, Rome wasn't built in a day.

Because you make me believe there are things worth fighting for.

The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, and it still is like trying to stem the tide with a sieve. The moral of this story is that no matter how much we try, no matter how much we want it... some stories just don't have a happy ending

Her mind is running in circles, like a gerbil on a wheel, the same way mine is. Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere.

The Center had suffered scars from the cuts of politicians and the barbs of protesters. It had licked its wounds and healed. At one point it had been called the Center for Women and Reproductive Health. But there were those who believed if you do not name a thing, it ceases to exist, and so its title was amputated, like a war injury. But still, it survived. First it became the Center for Women. And then, just: the Center.

Brit had wanted it to say LOVED. Those were the directions she gave me for the granite carver. But at the last minute I changed it. I was never going to stop, so why make it past tense? I

But let's be real. When you've already failed at killing yourself, anything else you might screw up seems minor.

So you see, the real question isn't how I left this world to go to the woods. It's how I made myself come back.

Fake it until you make it, she said.

really wanted Sage Singer to prove me wrong.

If you can't fly, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, crawl. But by all means, keep moving.

Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.  Ã¢â'¬Â¢

I realize that I do believe in people. In their strength to help each other, and to thrive in spite of the odds. I believe that the extraordinary trumps the ordinary, any day. I believe that having something to hope for—even if it's just a better tomorrow—is the most powerful drug on this planet.

That if our legacy is not entitlement, it must be hope. Because if it's not, then we become the shiftless, the wandering, the conquered. We become what they think we are. —

Kiedy nie ma siÄ™ nic oprócz mÅ'otka, wszystko wyglÄ…da jak gwó?d?.

But I do know that my own shittiest days were usually followed by better ones.

I should have known from watching Henry work at the office: programmers moved slowly and deliberately, and then waited to see the reaction. And if they did not succeed the first time, they would try over and over again, until they broke through that fifth dimension and got it right.

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

The more you get past pain, the more it gets from coal to diamond.

If you sit around and think about how hot the fire's going to be, you'll never get into the thick of it.

In every fairy tale, the only way out is to keep running forward. To never look back.