Quotes About Perseverance

I had changed since then. I had gained strength and size, and a beard that grew if I did not shave it away. But she was the same. Of course she was.

What about me?" I asked. Chiron's dark eyes moved to rest on mine. "You will never gain fame from your fighting. Is this surprising to you?

hunched against the tearing contraction. I had the willow

But even I could not fill each minute with fear. I have heard that men who live near a waterfall cease to hear it - in such a way did I learn to live beside the rushing torrent of his doom.

We had been silent. We were fourteen, and these things were too hard for us. Now that we are twenty-seven, they still feel too hard.

He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.

A bitch with a cliff for heart.

shine with pride. I knew how painful the death of that hope could be.

I have heard that men who live by a waterfall cease to hear it——in such a way did I learn to live beside the rushing torrent of his doom. The days passed, and he lived. The months passed, and I could go a whole day without looking over the precipice of his death. The miracle of a year, then two.

Jamás voy a dejarle. Será así siempre, hasta que él me abandone». -La canción de Aquiles (Madeline Miller)

Madison Cawthorn

Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done.

If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end.

We all fall to the floor at some point. It's how you pick yourself up that's the real challenge. Isn't it?

Men are easy to get but hard to keep.

A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.

She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.

In my experience, lights at the end of the tunnel tend to flicker out.

Instead of a last-gasp sprint, death can be a marathon.

You've worked too hard to let an opportunity like this slip through your fingers—read the script.

There is nothing you can throw at me that I cannot metabolize, no thing impervious to my alchemy.

two Christian princesses who were pursued by undesirable pagan lovers—lovers who professed to be unable to live without their beloveds' beautiful blue eyes. To rid herself of the unwanted attention, Medana supposedly plucked her eyes out and threw them at her suitor's feet; Triduana was slightly more inventive, and tore hers out with a thorn, then sent them to her suitor on a skewer.

One thing they don't tell you bout the blues when you got 'em, you keep on fallin' 'cause there ain't no bottom," sings Emmylou Harris, and she may be right. Perhaps it would help to be told that there is no bottom, save, as they say, wherever and whenever you stop digging.