Quotes About Perseverance

I think maybe everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking." I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. "I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

And I'll find you– You bet yer life on it– I'll find you– Keep calling for me, Viola– Cuz here I come.

But there's always hope," Ben says. "You always have to hope.

That was Gudmund's biggest fault. That he couldn't be anyone's everything. But that he'd try anyway.

But there are harder things than being invisible, it said

Life equals running and when we stop running, maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.

And maybe, Adam thought, maybe hearts don't ever stop breaking once broken. Maybe they just keep on beating, until they're broken again, and then they keep on beating still.

Remember," he says. "Hope.

I don't think it's about making us fall. It's about how we get up again.

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall. And maybe it don't hurt so much after all.

History ain't so important when yer just trying to survive,' I say, spitting it out under my breath. 'That's actually when it's most important.

We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they're the very thing that saves us.

_Of course you are afraid_, the monster said, pushing him slowly forward. _And yet you will still do it._

I think everybody falls, I think we all do. And I don´t think that's the asking. I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

Do you believe there's hope at the end?" I ask. "No," she says simply, looking away. "No, I don't, but I'm still going." She eyes me. "You coming with?

Here's what I think," I say and my voice is stronger and thoughts are coming, thoughts that trickle into my Noise like whispers of the truth. "I think everybody falls," I say. "I think maybe we all do. And I don't think that's the asking. I pull on her arms gently to make sure she's listening. "I think the asking is whether we get back up again.

The difference is that I think you never do it. Even if you're tempted, even if you're really close, because who knows? There might be more.

E lui capì che era giunto il momento. Capì che davvero non c'era ritorno. Che sarebbe accaduto, qualunque cosa potesse desiderare, qualunque cosa potesse provare. E sapeva anche che l'avrebbe superato. Sarebbe stato terribile. Sarebbe stato ben più che terribile. Ma sarebbe sopravvissuto.

History ain't so important when yer just trying to survive," I say, spitting it out under my breath. "That's actually when it's most important," Hildy says,

I think how hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, too, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare into the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

Wherever you are, it's okay. You can come back from it. Whatever happened to you down there, whatever the world looks like now, that's not how it always looks. That's not how it's always going to look. There's more. There's always more.

Learn to take criticism. Your first draft won't be perfect, and it's damaging to the book to think that it is. Every great book you've ever read has been rewritten a dozen times. This is the hardest think to learn (trust me), but very, very important.

Of course you are afraid, the monster said, pushing him slowly forward. And yet you will still do it.

I'm choosing my own story. Because if you can't do that, you might as well give up.