Quotes About Perseverance

You can't quit because there's a Beyoncé in the world. You can't quit because you went to see the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and realized that everyone on stage knows more about music than you ever will.

Failure can be a kind of pain that you shouldn't let go to waste, at least as long as you're in the proper space mentally. It will help you deal with rejection in a lot of other areas in your life.

It can be very daunting and upsetting when people realize that others are more talented than they are. But you have to work through that. You can't quit because there's a Beyoncé in the world.

In the end, learning how to write songs is, in large part, about teaching yourself to fail and being OK with it. But it's also about searching for, finding, and sharing some truth.

But, in the end, joy cannot fend off evil. Joy can only remind you why you fight.

The world we are a part of now is difficult to accept, unimaginably difficult. I don't know if I accept everything even now. I don't know how I can. But acceptance moves past denial, and maybe there's defiance in that, too.

You're on your own, like you've always been on your own. You have to keep going forward, until you can't go forward anymore.

Perhaps [he had] persevered for too long, in the face of too many obstacles, his hair proof of his tenacity - the stark black streaked with white or, in certain light, stark white shot through with black, each strand of white attributable to the jungle fever (so cold it burned, his skin glacial), each strand of black a testament to being alive afterwards.

Delusional. Naïve. Unworkable. Dangerous. That is what the enemy called the necessities for survival. For flourishing.

The world we are a part of now is difficult to accept, unimaginably difficult. I don't know if I accept everything even now. I don't know how I can. But acceptance moves past denial, and maybe there's a defiance in that, too.

Gerard turned away and ignored the cruelty of the meerkats, tore it from his mind. Lucretia needed a heart.

Never skip a step. Skip a step, you'll find five more new ones waiting ahead of you." The

In the end, if you change the enemy enough, if you wear them down, perhaps losing is good enough.

As the storm washed over them and they huddled there not knowing their futures until it had passed and all was still. None of them ready. Thought they were in the middle. Not the end.

And yet, for my art and for my loved ones, I will gladly endure to the end.

Hold on to your life and make it honest and brave.

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

Don't yield! Keep up your courage! The same sun looks down on all of us!

Die? Then so be it.

If the peace lily stops flowering, just be patient. It will bloom again.

It'll be messy, but after a day you'll be zipping around as though you were a thousand years old again.

One learns a good deal in the school of suffering. I wonder what would have happened to me if I had had an easy life, and had not had the privilege of tasting the joys of jail and all it means. ~ Badsha Khan, quote in Nonviolent Soldier of Islam, p. 87

I find it easier to abstain than do a little bit of anything. I'm not a 'little bit' kind of dame. I want it all, whatever I do.

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