Quotes About Perseverance

All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.

If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must be done. You may not have courage or trust or understanding or the will to do it, but you know what must be done. You can't turn back. There is now answer behind you. You fear what you cannot name. So look at it and find a name for it. Turn your face forward and learn. Do what must be done. -Deth to Morgon, Prince of Hed-

Survivors can't always choose their methods.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

Survivors can't always choose their methods.

Trying is always enough.

She crawled," Ben said. There were tears in his voice. That was wrong. Ben barely even tolerated me on the best of days. "She crawled to the bathroom to clean herself again. If it weren't for the two subs in the pack, I'd be on the bottom. And she wouldn't stand up in my presence for guilt.

Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.

I would slay dragons for you," he told her. "I suspect that finding an unoccupied bedroom will be easier.

Hijo de chihuahua !

Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

Zee said, grumpily, "Liebling, this is not a good idea." "Zee," I told him, "I am completely out of good ideas and am doing my best with the bad ones I have left.

He loved her beyond all reason and didn't expect her to love him back. He was just waiting for her to wise up.

I was too busy fighting the river to worry about adjusting my beliefs in accordance to reality.

It is the way of mortals. They fling themselves at life and emerge broken.

Sometimes broken people stay broken.

He was a better fighter than I was, but he wasn't faster than me. Nor was he as motivated, and I think he underestimated me. He thought he was fighting a girl with a stick when he was fighting Adam's mate, Coyote's daughter, armed with Lugh's staff.

Illegitimis nil carborundum.

Your ability to survive anything that gets thrown at you sometimes leaves the rest of us swallowing ulcer medication for days afterward. I don't like the taste of Maalox.

It'll take years of therapy. Probably for all of us: a long uphill battle. But we're still on the field fighting the good fight, battered and beaten though we are, and I understand just what a great gift that is.

if I had to crawl to do so. I would have walked through Hell to get back to you, and only failed because of the weakness of my body, not of my heart.

Might not be able to save you, old son," Adam said, lying back again and closing his eyes. "But I can buy us a little time to kick you in the butt hard enough you stop thinking about 'tomorrow and tomorrow' and start thinking about how much but hurts.

That which does not destroy us makes us stronger...