Quotes About Perseverance

only one road out here." "Just stay cool," I said. "They're probably

Gertie reached over and patted my hand. "It always feels better when someone understands that you're standing in a shit storm holding a broken umbrella." That pretty much summed it up.

them do their best. Before

What after all has maintained the human race on this old Globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities and courage to advocate them.

Fortitude was always to be one of the great virtues for Jane Austen.

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life; and if it were indispensable for me to keep it up and never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No, I must keep to my own style and go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.

I am less morose. I am just showing the results of the terrific fight that I have waged inside of myself, and you know that the face of victory often resembles the face of defeat.

The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.

And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.

I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.

Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.

bottom half of the card. 'Whoever

If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

No Pain No Gain

Every time my dreams threaten to become reality, something always happens and I end up alone.

Sometimes in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and actively look for the new. That even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Where there is life, there is hope.

Every time we try and get it together, something happens to pull us apart, and I can't help but feel that this is just isn't meant to be. And God knows I'm happy enough on my own, but tell me, is this how am I supposed to carry on?

I have given up on speech with the Rev; there is no use explaining that you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of it is too terrible to shoulder you have to shout it out; you have to shout for help. My trust, even down in that dark place I carry, is that some person will come running. And then finally the way through grief is grieving.

Emma, Emma, Emma," I said, wishing I could somehow teach her to take the smaller blows of life in her stride.

The City Surveyor had never before heard of disabled people wanting to cross the city as far as Marks & Spencer to buy their own underwear, so he failed to see the need for such an expedition – as if disabled people and their families had no right to venture that far. Injustice spurred us into action. Why should Stephen have to suffer restraints on his lifestyle other than those inflicted by an unkind Nature?