Quotes About Perseverance

Time is the only healer.

Life seemed to be one succession of good news and then bad. Ups followed by downs. But there was always enough hope to keep on going.

Most of us survive the hardest things. We are quite resilient.

Higher and higher we climbed, crawling at a snail's pace until we came to the little settlement called Truckee, looking like something from a Christmas card scene.

He tried to get up and move, but a searing pain from his leg shot through him. The last thing he heard before he blacked out was the song of a bird, greeting the dawn.

Don't look so sad," she said, touching my cheek. "All is well. We are tested and we survive, and life will be good again.

Like a fox being chased by the hounds, she needed a bolthole in which to lick her wounds.

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy." —Lazarus Long

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

to be the man, you gotta beat the man, WOO!

Eso sólo podría decirlo el futuro; por el momento, lejos de arredrarme sentí un gran coraje, y tuve la certeza de que me había de romper el alma antes que ceder a las fatigas o esquivar algún peligro del arreo.

I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion.

A ratos preocupado porque llevo muchos meses sin escribir, marcado por el vértigo y la circulación social. Reuniones, fiestas, entretenimientos. Decidido a terminar con esa farsa y sentarme a escribir salga como salga, por fin.

Es la frase más triste de todas las lenguas: "todo va a estar bien". Describe la esperanza y el anhelo, claro que sí, pero al mismo tiempo reconoce la crisis, la tempestad, el mal momento: todo va a estar bien, señoras y señores, porque ahora mismo no lo está, porque esto que estamos viviendo es un terrible inconveniente, un triste aprieto.

Roy: It's a winding road with no guardrails and some deeply stupid cul-de-sacs, but it's still technically a path.

he wanted to win. And would do whatever it took. Here was a self-made man, filled with the most dangerous kind of confidence: he had done it before and believed he could do it again. This gave him the air of a berserker, who says, If you're going to fight me, you better kill me.

God did not give Joseph any special information about how to get from being the son of a nomad in Palestine to being Pharaoh's right hand man in Egypt. What He did give Joseph were eleven jealous brothers, the attention of a very loose and vengeful woman, the ability to do the service of interpreting dreams and managing other people's affairs and the grace to do that faithfully wherever he was.

We all want to go there something awful, but to stand there takes some grace.

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

Tennis is not a gentle game. Psychologically, it is vicious. That people are only just beginning to come to terms with this fact illustrates just how big a con trick has been perpetrated on the non-playing tennis public - and even a few players, usually losing players - for decades.

Those who do not see the truth in battle march willingly to defeat.

Those who do not see the truth in battle march willingly to defeat," grunted

never forget it. Small wonder that Xavius had accomplished so much; an even greater darkness worked through him. But Malfurion still kept his wits about him, aware that to lose all hope was to lose

Numquam snantur dfrmis vulnera fmae. (Cato Dist. Appendix 5: