Quotes About Perseverance

It's not that I've suddenly become stronger or that something has changed. I'm still shaking. But...we don't have to let those fears stop us. What's more important is that we try to rise above our weakness.

I can't give up. Something...there must be something I can do. I want to believe that. I have to believe that.

I know. Just like there are kind places- I know. I know I haven't made it out of this yet. It's not over. It will come back again and again. The crushing injustice will keep harassing me. It will try to swallow me up. I hate this... it's hard... but even so, I'm done with looking down. Your life is yours, and yours alone.

I'm going to keep my head up. I'm the one...who will forge my path in life.

I can't get the words out. I have to gather my courage. Courage...it's time to be brave. I'm not going to put the lid back on. This feeling...can't be stopped anymore. It's time to be brave.

Love is difficult. Whatever happens in the night, morning still always comes. Always. Has there ever been a night that had no dawn?

I want to believe that I'm not wrong. I want to believe that life isn't full of darkness. Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.

I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet.

It's not that I've suddenly become stronger or that something has changed. I'm still shaking. But... We don't have to let those fears stop us. What's most important is that we try to rise above our weakness.

Let's try our best? I hope that someday the many, many tears that were shed will be worth it.

If the old man looked at straight lines to keep his act together, I was going to stare at curved lines and go down in flames.

You'll be amazed how much you have in common with Edith Wharton (who struggled to feel worthy of success), Louisa May Alcott (who badly needed money), Madaleine L'Engle (who could have papered an entire house with her rejection letters) and other writers...

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

If the first man who comes along does not want her, she will have the next, or the one after. No need to wait any longer for just one man. No need to be sad when he does not turn up, or to expect anything and suffer when one's hopes are razed to the ground.

life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder then life itself

Setiap orang akan mati, Firdaus. Saya akan mati, dan kamu akan mati. Dan yang penting ialah bagaimana untuk hidup sampai mati." "Kau harus lebih keras dari hidup itu, Firdaus. Hidup itu amat keras. Yang hanya hidup ialah orang-orang lebih keras dari hidup itu sendiri." "Hidup adalah ular. Keduanya sama, Firdaus. Bila ular itu menyadari kau bukan ular dia akan menggigitmu. Dan bila hidup itu tahu kau tidak punya sengatan, ia akan menghancurkanmu.

She no longer fears anything, for everything which can hurt her she has already undergone.

I always had an attitude that whatever came my way, I'd overcome it. I wouldn't let it hold me back.

Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best—better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His. We can grow in faith only if we are willing to wait patiently for God's purposes and patterns to unfold in our lives, on His timetable.

Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, and charity. The latter, however, must be carefully and constantly nurtured, whereas despair, like dandelions, needs so little encouragement to sprout and spread. Despair comes so naturally to the natural man!

Patience is...clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing.