Quotes About Perseverance

You got to rescue yourself.

Flora's heart, the lonely, many-armed squid of it, flipped and flailed inside of her.

Now, don't get started on that. Remember what I said: There's no point in looking back.

Killing him will not banish him from your dreams, said Cannoc. I can assure you of that. Think on who you are, Jack Dory.

TERRIBLE THINGS CAN HAPPEN TO YOU!

Look at the pebbles in the bottom of the pool, Miss Emily, so round and smooth and shining. Yes, but where did they get that beautiful polish, that satin skin, that lovely shape, Rebecca? Not in the still pool lying on the sands. It was never there that their angles were rubbed off and their rough surfaces polished, but in the strife and warfare of running waters. They have jostled against other pebbles, dashed against sharp rocks, and now we look at them and call them beautiful.

Having learned the trick of beating and loving and suffering, the poor faithful heart persisted, although it lived on memories and carried on its sentimental operations mostly in secret.

I'd never go back—I might be frightened, but I'd be ashamed to run.

We must all learn the measure of our strength. Otherwise we exhaust ourselves striving for that which we can never gain.

We'll smell of fish forever," I said. "That would be nice.

I have been bitten by the snake too

Above all else, do not fear to climb the victory tower.

Of course we all suffer,' Priya often told her. 'But if you cling to suffering or fight it then it will hold on like a rat. If you accept it's existence and the pain it causes you, then you can release it'.

It is not in victory that you learn how strong you truly are.

Most things are possible, if one decides they are.

and what do you think true love is? her father had asked her. 'Loving even when all hope is gone,' she had answered.

Had she been broken and healed all awry, like a bone that had not been properly set?

You are made who you are by the bad stuff, the little things, as much as the great triumphs and big decisions.

Stay down, Stubby, or you'll get your head shot off," Conroy warned me. He didn't have to tell me. Seeing as how I was fond of my head, I lay low when the bullets flew.

The human sprit can withstand much, but once broken, it crumbles like dust

Nahestehende zu überleben erfordert eine besondere Art von Mut, sagte sie leise.

Aber ich wollte nicht genesen, wenn ich dafür das wenige, das mir von meinem Bruder geblieben war, aufgeben musste.

And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.

W)hen a load is too heavy for one horse to pull, what do we do? Hitch another to it, don't we? That's just common sense. Well, son, things that sort of weigh on a man's mind and heart may be too heavy for him to make much headway with alone.