Quotes About Perseverance

If you've never known love, you never know where it is, you don't know what it looks like or it sounds like, you look in the most unlikely places to find it.

every time you reach the edge, the edge move ahead of you like a shadow until the whole world is a ghetto, and you wait.

My mother is so afraid of trouble that trouble sticks to her close just because he never gets tired of proving a point.

The problem with proving something is that instead of leaving you alone people never stop giving you new things to prove, harder things.

There was this gate and it was just some rusty gate but I knew I had to get through it. The only way forward is through. Who said that? I had to get through it, if I didn't I would die, get cut open, sliced with a knife from the neck right down to labia with me screaming all the time, I just had to get through the fucking gate.

The car is hopping over bumps, jumping, tearing, screeching. The green car in sight, out of sight, vanishing around a corner only to appear when I skate around, behind three or four cars. God, I hope he's not trying to lose me. I almost said "give me the slip." I could feel it coming but I didn't.

My mother sings One day at a time sweet Jesus, and even Daddy likes to say that, one day at a time, as if it's some strategy for living. And yet the quickest way to not live at all is to take life one day at a time.

If you can break a day down into quarters, then hours then half hours then minutes, you can chew down any stretch of time into bite sized.

Living through a day was harder, for no matter how much I stomp one down another was always coming. Watching the little poison frog take on a day is how I learn to live through it. First rip the day in half, time to sleep, time to walk. Then tear it down more, then more, and more after that. Tear a day into pieces you can swallow and soon the whole thing will pass.

Gotta stay in the gym, stay funny, stay sharp. I just love working.

Triple T, K A.... time to totally kick ass.

Strategy for a Marathon I will start when the gun goes off. I will run for five miles. Feeling good, I will run to the tenth mile. At the tenth I will say, Only three more to the halfway." At the halfway mark, 13.1 miles, I will know fifteen is in reach. At fifteen miles I will say, You've run twenty before, keep going." At twenty I will say, Run home.

Our motto must be, "Non-Resistant Persistence.

Marnie Swedberg

Heaven is going to be one long, never-ending "The Rest of the Story.

The distance is nothing it's only the first step that is difficult.

Sé que si me rindo, el miedo puede destruirme.

The bottom line is that if you are in hell, the only way out is to go through a period of sustained misery. Misery is, of course, much better than hell, but it is painful nonetheless. By refusing to accept the misery that it takes to climb out of hell, you end up falling back into hell repeatedly, only to have to start over and over again.

El camino para salir del infierno pasa por el sufrimiento. Si te niegas a aceptar ese sufrimiento que forma parte de salir del infierno, volverás a caer en él.

I see it on his face. I hear it when he talks. We look out at the world and we see the same thing: Not Fair. And the only difference between us is Ricky's out there trying to get even. And he knows not trust anybody and he got it straight from me. And he knows not to try and get work, and guess where he got that. He walks around like there's loose boards in the floor, and you know who laid that floor, I did.

It was his idea to go horseback riding that day. It was his idea I could do anything if I just made up my mind to. I fell off the horse because I didn't know how to hold on. Cecil left for pretty much the same reason.

Mama:...you can keep trying. You can get brave and try some more. You don't have to give up. Jessie: I'm NOT giving up. This IS the other thing I'm trying. And I'm sure there are some other things that might work, but MIGHT work isn't good enough any more. I need something that WILL work. THIS will work. That's why I picked it.

For instance, people who speak up for what they want in the face of conflicting peer group expectations must endure a period when others become rejecting, angry or critical. They must sustain themselves during the tension of these days (or months or years), while continuing to move in the direction they have decided is good for them. They must be strong enough within themselves to persevere and know that, even though others may be critical, they are acceptable in their own estimation. People

By getting up after every fall, and by frequently renewing my faith and love, I have arrived at a state of mind where it is more difficult for me NOT to think of God as it was at the beginning to think of Him.