Quotes About Perseverance

A Kiowa's first and last resort was courage. A Kiowa did not beg or plead or appease. She knew at the bitter end she could starve away the despair, deny any sustenance to surrender. She wiped her face again and climbed up into the wagon. Ausay gya kii, gyao boi tol. Prepare for a hard winter, prepare for hard times. She braided her hair as if for battle. And so she became quiet and stilled.

What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will.

But still he objected. He was an old man. A cranky old man. I raised two of them already. A celestial voice said, Well then, do it again.

In not a single one of these little campaigns was I victorious. In other words, in each case, I personally failed, but I have lived to see the thesis upon which I was operating vindicated. And what I very often say is that I've lived to see my lost causes found.

What is often called exceptional ability is nothing more than persistent endeavor.

If anyone should ask a Negro woman in America what has been her greatest achievement, her honest answer would be, 'I survived!

We can do this. But even if we lose this battle we have to do it. Failure is only final if you stop trying.

He said it was an "opportunity to excel," which basically meant the job sucked and no one else wanted to do it.

An artist must either give up art or develop.

where there is a will there is a way .

Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Take a leap of faith, and build your wings down.

The one who dares a Lion should be prepared to die by its claws!

Live as if you have faith," she said, "and faith shall be given to you.

In Alexander's life there was one thread that could not be broken by death, by distance, by time, by war. Could not be broken. As long as I am in the world, she said with her breath and her body, as long as I am, you are permanent, soldier.

Alexander knew that before he had light instead of darkness, he had to deserve light instead of darkness.

Thank you," she whispered, "for keeping yourself alive, soldier." "You're welcome," he whispered back.

We thought the hard part was over—but we were wrong. Living is the hardest part. Figuring out how to live your life when you're all busted up inside and out—there is nothing harder.

If I can live through this, he thought, I can live through anything. If I can live through this, I WILL live through anything.

Though much is taken, much abides; and though we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are— Unyielding.

I know that sometimes the things we carry become too much for us. We are burned down, but somehow we have to pick ourselves up and keep going

Shura, I'm yours. You may not like it today, you may not want it tonight, you may wish for it all to be different now, but it remains, and I remain, as always, only yours. Nothing can change that. Not your wrath, your fists, your body or your death.

Here I am, your one man circus freak show, having bled out for mother Russia, having desperately tried to get to you, now on top of you with this scourge marks, and you, who used to love me, who was sympathized, internalized, normalized everything, you are not allowed to turn away from me....this is what I am going to look like until the day I die. I can't get any peace from you ever unless you find away to make peace with this. Make peace with me. Or let me go for good.

Tania, there is so much still ahead of you. Be patient with life