Quotes About Perseverance

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom, 'cause you don't always win.

I just realized, baby, right now, thinking of how I could take this pain away from you, I just realized that you have to feel it. You gotta make your way through all the bad stuff to get to the good.

Her dreams had not survived her dreaming them; they'd been broken and repaired, only to be smashed again and again.

We'd been a tragedy waiting to happen from the moment we met and it hadn't stopped me from falling deep in love with her. And our love was messy and it was colored right now with a lot of other shit. But it didn't change the love. It was still there, a steady heartbeat beneath everything.

Sometimes I feel so awful that my life became better on the backs of all these aborted plans and broken dreams.

When we were pushed to the edge we were capable of anything. Surviving was the only thing that mattered.

L'importante è perseverare, perseverare è diabolico, l'importante è essere diabolici.

Of course one wants to feel better. But are we willing to have new experiences? Are we willing to work for it? Do we want it bad enough?

Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me.

When I can't ride anymore, I shall keep horses as long as I can hobble around with a bucket and a wheelbarrow. When I can't hobble, I shall roll my wheelchair out to the fence of the field where my horses graze and watch them. Whether by wheelbarrow or wheelchair, I will do likewise to keep alive-as long as I can do as best I can-my connection with horses.

If you can't stand the heat in the kitchen, keep cooking. Success comes from repeatedly doing things that make you uncomfortable.

Knowing there is no cavalry is much better than hoping for a cavalry that never comes. I am strong because I have to be. I am the cavalry. (314)

That night, my heart softened around Wills's autism. Clearly, Katherine had been right. I couldn't isolate him. As painful as it was to watch him paralyzed with fright, I knew that he was happier when he tried. Not showing up was admitting defeat. Admitting that he couldn't do it. Admitting that the autism was bigger than him.

Baby No Matter What You Do ; Im Going To Stay Standing =)

A single task won't crush your spirit. Give yourself a break

Ooit zal iedereen onherroepelijk achter de tijd aan hollen tot zijn tong zijn schoenen hangt.

She woke up and realized she had forgotten the definition of the word 'impossible.' She decided it must not have been that important.

Despite all the evils they wished to crush me with/ I remain as steady as the three-legged cauldron.

Just do good, don't worry about the road ahead.

Place your life in the hands of Christ and follow him that you do not perish (2 Nephi 11:6).

I had been riding horses before my memory kicked in, so my life with horses had no beginning. It simply appeared from the fog of infancy. I survived a difficult childhood by traveling on the backs of horses, and in adulthood the pattern didn't change.

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.