Quotes About Perseverance

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

Listen: You can't short-circuit the learning process. It takes time to get to the top, and that's good-because by the time you get there, you'll have learned what you need to know in order to stay there.

FAILING IS A PART OF LEARNING.

Look how we have made our broken hearts soar.

There's always another storm. It's the way the world works. Snowstorms, rainstorms, windstorms, sandstorms, and firestorms. Some are fierce and others are small. You have to deal with each one separately, but you need to keep an eye on whats brewing for tomorrow.

Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .

Maar hier staan Klipman, hy't niks oorgekom van dit nie. En hierie man van my, dink ek terwyl ek grot toe loop, is 'n annerlike man, want vuur en klip is nie owerste oor hom nie, nee. Dis annersom. Hy is die owerste oor vuur en klip, ahê". Klipman se arm is nog steeds om my, hy hou my nog allie tyd vas. Sal nie weer teensukkel teen hom nie, dink ek. Hy't my nou mooi saggebak. Ek is nou 'n gaar skilpadjie, hy kan my maar afdop.

You simply don't realize how much pain the human spirit can endure

Lucy shivered and went on again. 'This is an adventure,' she thought. 'You can't have an adventure if you stop in the middle.

She was trying to decide to regard the black flies as a good symptom of the liveliness of the North, a sign that nature will never capitulate, that man is red in tooth and claw but there is something that cannot be controlled by him, when a critter no larger than a fruitfly tore a hunk out of her shin through her trousers.

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier.

When God closes one door, He slams another in your face

when we're in emotional pain, we think it's a mistake, something that needs to be remedied. 'We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and fall apart. Then they come together and fall apart again. It's just like that.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

I try to act out of faith.

After each horizon is the sun, if you go to life.

Human life – an Everest that all sorts of thoughts and desires are trying to climb.

Life got ahead of me. I thought I would hurry up walking through this desert and I would await its arrival!

To the one me hurt within me I said: be quiet. Life is much more rough here, outside…

Nos hemos quedado jodidas en silencio, y en silencio nos han jodido.

Pain can be dismissed.

Ixion's not a place for friends. They die or they leave. On Ixion you need allies.

to that. You couldn't go through that. You just