Quotes About Perseverance

There is a resiliency in the human spirit that keeps us going even when we have no reason to continue.

How do you even choose what to mend when so much has already been destroyed? How could she think, she asked herself, that she could revive or save anything?

Sometimes you just have to shake the devil off you, whatever that devil is. Even if you don't feel like living for yourself, you have to start living for your child, for your children

She said the lottery was like love. Providence was not with her, but she was patient.

For in grief nothing 'stays put,"' C. S. Lewis writes. "One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?

But no one has ever gone from slavery to freedom with the slaveholders cheering them on, nor contributed significantly to the evolution of our species by working a forty-hour week, nor achieved any significant accomplishment by taking refuge in cynicism.

That is about all I have learned—to study general conditions, to take a position and stick to it.

My losses have taught me that I must not begin to advance until I am sure I shall not have to retreat. But

A stock operator has to fight a lot of expensive enemies within himself.

Without faith in his own judgment no man can go very far in this game. That is about all I have learned to study general conditions, to take a position and stick to it.

I quite cold-bloodedly reached the conclusion that I would never be able to accomplish anything useful so long as I was worried.

began. What beat me was not having brains enough to stick to my own game—that is, to play the market only when I was satisfied that precedents favored my play. There

Let's leave the window, and write. No need to wait for a fine blue to break through. We must live, make do.

Very few worthwhile things are not difficult, in some fashion

Sometimes you just have to hold on, to keep doing what you're doing, to have faith that things are going to get better. It's how we survive. There've been a million bottlenecks in history where things would have turned out much worse if we'd all just given up and accepted the inevitable. Some of those bottlenecks would have ended us if a few irrational, doggedly optimistic souls hadn't clung to a thread of hope

Given up, Khouri? It's not in my dictionary.

Few of us get the things we deserve,' Ndege said, 'but we make the best of what we're given.

Generally it's best to accept that things are exactly as bad as they look. At least that way you know it's time to start digging your way out.

we live to fight another day

In Hom. 12, we have an excellent instruction on that important maxim in a spiritual life, That we must never think how far we have run, but what remains of our course, as in a race a man thinks only on what is before him. It will avail nothing to have begun, unless we finish well our course

I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.

I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.