Quotes About Perseverance

Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

We're each on our own tightrope. All we can do is pick one another up after we fall.

The heart always finds a way.

that in the larger sense of life's struggle, most of us are wounded in combat.

Life was not perfect, but everyone deserved a shot at happiness. You had to take your chances. Sometimes you had to accept a compromise. And just because you'd made one mistake didn't mean you were doomed to repeat that mistake, or live with its consequences forever.

But in the same way that she wanted a marriage and a profession, she was determined that motherhood would not be the end of her career.

I have been so busy asking for faith that I forgot to ask for patience.

Ever' man wants life to be a fine thing, and a easy. 'Tis fine, boy, powerful fine, but 'taint easy. --Penny Baxter to his son, Jody

Life knocks a man down and he gits up and it knocks him down agin

Life is a difficult matter, and the more a simple man may learn of what greater men have thought, and taught, have spoken and have written, the better can he cope with any sort of life.

Now I shore as the devil won't waste no time tootlin' him. You know me better'n that. You know I'm made outen whale-bone and hell.' 'Ain't the whalebone gittin' a mite limber?' ''Tis, but the hell's hot as ever.

He would be lonely all his life. But a man took it for his share and went on.

But no one builds better homes than those who have lost home.

Nothing so bad you need to be cruel. Tough, yes. You'll have to kill, yes. But there's a difference in the heart. One makes you mean. The other keeps you going.

There was an art to living, and sometimes it required the inexorable, relentless resolve just to keep plowing forward, one step at a time, no matter what the hell it was you were doing.

The good and the bad. It always happens together, and all you can do is press on. Press on.

Miri forced herself to remain very still. Never run from immortals, she remembered; her favorite line from a favorite movie. Never run.

Elder Neal A. Maxwell once said, "We are here in mortality, and the only way to go is through; there isn't any around!" I would add, the only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.

Stick to a task, 'til it sticks to you. Beginners are many, finishers are few." -Anonymous, as quoted in Small and Simple Things.

We each do the best we can. My best may not be as good as your best, but it's my best. The fact is we know when we are doing our best and when we are not. If we are not doing our best, it leaves us with a gnawing hunger and frustration. But when we do our best, we experience a peace.

For it is not requisite that a woman should hobble faster than she has strength!

The road has not been paves all the way for any of us. We all have a small place in our hearts where we store our sorrows and disappointments. But are there not days when you are simply overwhelmed with the blessings of the Lord?

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried; you float.