Quotes About Perseverance

You plan, you prepare, and you'll do just fine.

I want to tell my granddaughter the lesson of the book. The lesson that they can beat you, but they cannot defeat you. I must tell her that.

The question of how one survived is simply not asked. It is not polite. How one survived is best not discussed.

His body had been doing that for almost two thousand years. Since his time as a slave on the Obsidia.

Life goes on. Even after the end of the world as we knew it. I

Impressive.

Time. Sorrow. Evil. All such things are hammers. And only the anvil of eternity defies their blows.

You can take a road that gets you to the stars, I can take a road that will see me through.

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and giving us texture. You can scrape all you want, you can, if you have money, hire someone else to scrape, but the barnacles will come back or at least leave a blemish on the steel.

Pray About It: How often we pray for God to remove our problems when God has designed these problems to be vehicles for His strength. Whereas in the past we've prayed for days equal to our strength, today we must pray for power equal to our days. Remember today His strength will be made perfect in your weakness. Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint. OSWALD CHAMBERS

Let the timid, and tempted, and cast down, in this cloudy and dark day, be encouraged to trust in God, and to remember that "The things which are impossible with men are possible with God" (Luke 18:27).

You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in...

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in...

I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign.

Wolves were burned alive, dragged to death behind horses, fed fishhooks inside meat, set free with mouths and penises wired shut.

Pain helps us grow stronger.

in rock'n'roll it wasn't the winners but the losers who made for the most compelling stories.

Better to accept what you cannot change and learn to adapt than rail against the immutable and end up wasting time and effort.

This book was supposed to be finished at Easter, like God.

David, on the other hand, may not be so initially alarming, but once decided on a course of action is hard to sway. When his immovable object met Roger's irresistible force, difficulties were guaranteed to follow.

think it might be true to say that we were close to calling it a day. Steve O'Rourke always maintained that each member of the band came to him separately at some point to vent his irritation, going as far as threatening to leave.

As our good friend Ron Geesin was fond of announcing, 'The next dance will be a fight.