Quotes About Perseverance

And hope was often irrational. It made no sense. If it had made sense, it would have been called, well, sense. The other thing about hope was that it took effort, and I had never been used to effort.

If you keep on climbing a mountain, you will eventually reach the top. That's the thing with mountains, however big they are, there is always a top. Even if it takes all through the day and all through another night, you will usually get there. If yoy keep remembering there is a top.

And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on. —Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

IT'S A WEIRD thing, depression. Even now, writing this with a good distance of fourteen years from my lowest point, I haven't fully escaped.

She just needed potential. And she was nothing if not potential. She wondered why she had never seen it before. She heard Mrs Elm's voice, from under the table somewhere far behind her, cutting through the noise. 'Don't give up! Don't you dare give up, Nora Seed!' She didn't want to die. And she didn't want to live any other life than the one that was hers.

This was the species whose main excuse for not doing something was 'if only I had more time'. Perfectly valid until you realised they did have more time. Not eternity, granted, but they had tomorrow. And the day after tomorrow. And the day after the day after tomorrow. In fact I would have to write 'the day after' thirty thousand times before a final 'tomorrow' in order to illustrate the amount of time on a humans hands.

Walking one foot in front of the other, in the same direction, will always get you further than running around in circles. It's about the determination to keep walking forward.

Comfort for me is not about everything being perfect. It is about finding comfort despite life being imperfect, being occasionally harsh and brutal. The resilience we find in the hard times is what makes us strong in all seasons.

FIRE Every part of her That changed That got scraped off Because of schoolyard laughter Or the advice of grown-ups Long gone – And the pain of friends Already dead. She collected those bits off the floor. Like wood shavings. And she made them into fuel. Into fire. And burned. Bright enough to see for ever.

You can walk through a storm and feel the wind but you know you are not the wind.

I am saying that the thing that looks the most ordinary might end up being the thing that leads you to victory. You have to keep going.

The best thing about rock bottom is the rock part. You discover the solid bit of you. The bit that can't be broken down further. The thing that you might sentimentally call a soul. At our lowest we find the solid ground of our foundation. And we can build ourselves anew.

But I am good with pain. Small price to pay for being alive.

Nora stared at the books around her. 'So, are you saying I only have pawns to play with?' 'I am saying that the thing that looks the most ordinary might end up being the thing that leads you to victory. You have to keep going.

ViaÈ›a e ca un horn de sob?-uneori trebuie s? treci prin întuneric ca s? vezi lumina.

Don't worry about the time you lose to despair. The time you will have afterwards has just doubled its value.

The thing you need to realize is this: the game is never over until it is over. It isn't over if there is a single pawn still on the board.

Keep risking ridicule.

Because a pawn is never just a pawn. A pawn is a queen-in-waiting. All you need to do is find a way to keep moving forward. One square after another. And you can get to the other side and unlock all kinds of power.

A sore throat doesn't become less sore simply because you've felt it before.

A reminder for the tough times One day this will be over. And we will be grateful for life in ways we never felt possible before.

Maybe she was just really crap at it. At life.

She had to try harder. She had to want the life she always thought she didn't. Because just as this library was a part of her, so too were all the other lives. She might not have felt everything she had felt in those lives, but she had the capability.

Far from being a curse, uncertainty can be a source of hope.