Quotes About Perseverance

Have you ever tried?' 'No.' 'Then don't tell me I can't.

As if fixing the little errors would made the big stuff manageable.

Going backwards is never an option.

She turned so they were face-to-face and gave him back the words he'd offered her their first night together: "I survived. Isn't that what matters?

Belief is a powerful thing. If you believe you can…

You're not weak at all. Wounded, but that's nothing to be ashamed of.

It wasn't the tattoo that had changed her, had given her repossession of her body. It was her actions, her choices. It was finding the path when it looked like there weren't any paths to be found.

I did survive. I still am. And it won't happen again.

I didn't drown. I didn't break.

He had hopes, but hope wasn't a solution.

I survived. Isn't that what matters?

You know its more than that. I know now that it was right that I didn't find my queen all these years. Waiting for you was worth everything that I thought I couldn't endure.

It wasn't always imperative to get 'Excellent'. Sometimes it was healthy to have something to work towards.

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Sometimes we have to let our dreams go in order to allow God to bring them back to us - in his way and his timing.

Sometimes you have to just go for what you want. Take the risk in order to get the reward.

Don't worry about how bad things look right now. It's all going to fall into place. You'll see.

The only thing suffering teaches us is that we are capable of suffering.

We shall fight on the beaches," said Churchill in 1940, "we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." Only "surrender" is not Old English. That, in itself, might be significant.

We fight, therefore, we are!

This was the virtue of Israel, to have "contended with Elokim and with men" and to have prevailed over their respective concealments of G-d. They are no longer barriers to him; indeed they assent to his blessings. He not only won his struggle with the angel (the guardian angel of Esau) but the angel himself blessed him. This is the achievement of which the Proverbs speak: "He makes even his enemies be at peace with him."14

The man who runs may fight again.

Being a man, ne'er ask the gods for a life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

He who labours diligently need never despair. We can accomplish every thing by diligence and labour.