Quotes About Perseverance

Sadness keeps attempting to tie weights to her wrists and ankles, therefore she has to keep moving, she has to outpace it.

How much more interesting it is, with its frank display of the labour needed to attain the perfection of the finished piece.

The problem is," her brother says, striding through the attic, through the words scattered on the floor, making the curls of paper skitter and swirl around his boots, "that I have no talent for it. I cannot abide waiting.

It will lie at her very core, for the rest of her life.

You see, she says to him, you cannot change what you are given, cannot bend or alter what is dealt to you.

She gets hold of the wooden gatepost and grips it with both hands. Everything is shattered but holding on to this post feels like the best course of action, the only thing to do. If she can stay here, at the gate, with her daughters on one side of her and her son on the other, she can hold everything together.

There will be no going back. No undoing of what was laid out for them. The boy has gone and the husband will leave and she will stay and the pigs will need to be fed every day and time runs only one way.

Maggie O'Farrell

There will be no going back. No undoing of what was laid out for them. The boy has gone and the husband will leave and she will stay and the pigs will need to be fed every day and time runs only one way. "Go, then," she says, turning from him, pushing him away, "if you are going. Return when you can.

That the things in life which don't go to plan are usually more important, more formative, in the long run, than the things that do.

She doesn't like sitting about, no matter what is wrong in life. It does you good to have something ahead of you, regardless how small.

Sadness keeps attempting to tie weights to her wrists and ankles, therefore she has to keep moving, she has to outpace it. And so she walks, along one terrace then another, from one battlement to the next

I give thanks for the wise qualities of the evergreen trees that have stood by me this day: may you show me how my own heart can be evergreen and growing through winters of doubt and darkness.

Grinding her teeth together, she hoped the bastards weren't cheering yet, because it was going to take more than one bullet to kill Jenny Jones.

Maggie Osborne

Life is long. Things can resume.

Maggie Shayne

The foolish undertake a trifling act, and soon desist, discouraged; wise men engage in mighty works, and persevere.

Two sources of success are known: wisdom and effort; make them both thine own, if thou wouldst haply rise.

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

You're blessed if you have the strength to work.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking.