Quotes About Perseverance

You don't belong here, Miss Kimble. You're completely in over your head. Learn to swim, or drown. Those are your only choices when it comes to the Sullivans. Now,

They were the words she'd waited her entire life for, words of acceptance, of love, and Imogene knew this was finally her chance to hear them, her chance to be the daughter her father had always wanted, the daughter he'd lost when Chloe died. This time, she wouldn't fail. Not this time.

He wished he knew how they did it. Even planning for the next day was beyond his capabilities. He didn't understand how to think that way, how to plan, and he wanted to. He wanted to understand how people mapped out their lives, how they went so easily through a day. How they managed to keep from destroying the people around them, destroying themselves. He looked down at his arm, at the too-smooth stump, the thick pink ridge of scar. Christ, how did they do it? How did Genie do it?

music told me that whatever else had been taken from me, my soul remained.

It is optimism or madness that keeps one forging ahead despite failure after failure?

Scars are proof we can can survive

But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.

My head's filled up with all the reasons it won't work. And I keep running the figures, over and over, but I can't seem to come up with an answer.

Bess had become the ocean, always breaking against the rocks but never staying broken. Her love was the ocean, too, endless and always changing, yet forever the same.

Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.

No matter how hard you worked, there was always going to be somebody out there who thought you were fuckup.

He closed his hand around my wrist and pressed my hand flat against his chest. "The way I see it, Elle, scars are proof we can survive.

Bess hadn't ever been good with change. She'd never been good with taking leaps of faith, or risks or changes. When something worked, she tended to stick with it. Even when something didn't.

Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings more satisfaction in the end.

I won't say it's okay, because it's not. If you want to break up with me, Elle, then do it. But I'm not going to make it easy for you.

The way I see it, Elle. Scars are proof we can survive.

Whatever task you're set, find some way to love it. Sunny wondered if Josiah's words applied to standing with a face of stone so the person in front of her wouldn't know how much she wanted to scream.

Sometimes you have to take your time to get your reward.

More smiling. Fierce. I was getting a headache. I smiled.

For anyone who's ever thought of giving up the dream . . . don't. Keep dreaming.

That sometimes you don't get over something. You just get through it.

Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings more satisfaction in the end. We appreciate what we've almost lost more than what we've never doubted.

That's what it means. One day you will run toward something instead of away, and then you will understand.

Some things never left you, no matter how much you wanted them to.