Quotes About Perseverance

Endure, and keep yourself for days of happiness.

There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of the creative fire.

poorly. Then I fell

but he didn't kid himself. Seventeen years was too long

and whispered, "Are you okay? We can take a break." She shook her head. "No, I'm okay. Please, Detective

Be a loyal friend. Be a kind person. Work hard. And choose to be happy.

We are in a tight corner, now, I agree. But we have been in tight corners before and come out of them. You have to be brave a little longer.

There is nothing," he said to the sapling firs, "like being able to endure hard times with a good countenance.

I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.

Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations.

Every time we get to the finish line they move it. Every time.

Everything's bad until it's good. If this is what you really want, then you just have to hang in there until you get to the good times.

Sometimes the best love is tough love.

Building a neighbourhood takes a very long time. It takes at least twenty years and then some. Like a garden, a neighbourhood must be tended regularly and by many people. There are seeds to be sown, little plants to water. And yes, every day there are weeds to be pulled, small problems to be solved before they overwhelm what is good. It is a humble task, and it is never over. There are days when you think the slightest storm could blow all this loveliness away.

Samuel Johnson said a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience," Kirkland said.

bullet wound will do." Gordon

Trees can grow from tiny cracks in stony cliffs, Kate. This may be a very small crack indeed—but it's a beginning.

Sufficient unto the day were the evils thereof.

The most we can ever do is our best," she said quietly. "If worry is interest paid on troubles we haven't had yet, guilt is pain wasted on what can't be changed." "Please remind me of that regularly. I need to hear it.

God has used those tough times to make me stronger to help me grow spiritually

But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can kill me... and go on living without me.

The shreiking fight or the out-of-character insult endures forever, while the daily sweetness dissolves like sugar in water.

Writing, regardless of the end result—whether good or bad, published or not, well reviewed or slammed—means celebrating beauty in an often ugly world.

I kept the fingers of my left hand crossed all the time, while on my right-hand fingers I counted anything at all—steps to the refrigerator, seconds on the clock, words in a sentence—to keep my head occupied. The counting felt like something to hang on to, as if finding the right numbers might somehow crack the code on whatever system ran the slippery universe we were moving through.