Quotes About Perseverance

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.

He was a mean man, it's true, but he got ahead. A man gets on by working harder than the rest—that's what he used to say—and if he doesn't get anywhere, he hasn't a soul to blame but himself.

I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't say I like it, or accept it, or believe it's for the best. I don't and never shall, not even if I'm damned for it.

If someone asked me to sum up what is great about my country, I would probably tell them about Apollo 11, about the four hundred thousand people who worked to make the impossible come true within eight years ...

Life is a storeroom filled with boxes, some empty, some misplaced forever. We're what remains, what we've grabbed hold of.

Tu ancora ami il mio cuore?" "Sempre. Sempre te per sempre." "Non pensi che sono cambiata, che sono peggiore? Pavida, gretta, stretta ai miei golfini, ai miei passi rachitici." "Penso che profumi di un odore che mi piacerà sempre.

De ahí nacen las grietas, como un cristal que se resquebraja y sigue en pie. No se envejece día tras día, se envejece de golpe, de un modo amargo. Una descarga que nos fulmina, nos ensucia... Nos tiñe el rostro de amargura.

Seems like nothing's getting safer or better," I said. "Seems like everything's getting worse." "Maybe that's what's gotta happen," Willa Mae said. "Maybe everything's gotta break lose and fall apart before we can put it back together again right.

What's to be done with all that you know and see? What do you do with so much meanness in this sorrowful world?

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.

Never underestimate the power of a small, dedicated group of people to change the world; indeed, that is the only thing that ever has.

I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.

Hardships make or break people.

I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.

Margaret Murphy

Margaret Murphy

enough to spark a little of her accustomed fight.

And yet, I felt a surge of exhilaration just thinking about that night. Not just because I'd met the prince and fallen in love and started on my course toward happiness ever after, but because I'd made something happen. I'd done something everybody had told me I couldn't. I'd changed my life all by myself. Having a fairy godmother would have ruined everything.

Our job on earth, as I see it, is to hold on through the hard parts and try and be a good person.

I've been praying to Jesus and the Holy Ghost for patience and I have also mentioned that it would help if I did not have frizzy hair.