Quotes About Perseverance

The world should have stopped, but it didn't. The world kept on going. How can the world just keep on going? An earthquake in India kills a thousand people, and the world keeps on going. A famine in China kills a million people, and the world keeps on going. The twin towers of the World Trade Center buckle and fall, and the world, the world keeps on going.

We all walk around with a stone in our shoe, Younger." William T.

In the dimly lit basement hall of Saints Peter and Paul's Soup Kitchen, in the back alleys behind the bus station, in the urine-scented wards of the state mental hospital, I saw, firsthand, that it was possible to lose everything and still go on.

I've actually suffered from allergies my entire life. My mom had allergies, so I was aware of what an issue they can be. Many people allow their allergies to affect their lives. As a mom with two kids and two jobs, I just can't let allergies slow me down. It's a day to day thing that can really be remedied by finding the right medication.

I started running outside when I was at 'Biggest Loser.' Then I got runner's knee, and thought I was never going to be able to shake it. When I overcame that and ran the L.A. Marathon, it was such an amazing thing, and now running is such a part of my routine.

One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to make the right choices. When you feel defeated about your weight and your health, like there's no hope, and you still make the choice to fight for it, to make the change happen no matter what people say or think, that's inspiring to me.

I must bear it well as I may. As my sainted mother used to say, we never come to the kingdom of Heaven but by troubles.

We can do more than pray, after we have prayed, but not until.

A professional is a man who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.

A professional is someone who can do his best when he doesn't feel like it.

peoples who have been waiting for their independence for a century, fighting for it for a generation, can afford to sit out a presidential term, or a year or two in the life of an old man in a hurry;

After some time it was borne in upon him that he could shake the colonel's shoulder all night and that would be all he would have for it.

the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could be the bottom of the valley, the beginning of the long climb up the far slope, and when a man had once begun that climb he never looked back to that other side.

To all things an end. To every night a dawn. Even to longest night when dawn never comes, there comes, at last, the dawn.

No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.

Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave. ~King Solomon

He and Marten may be needles in a haystack, but straw by straw the hay is being taken away. It's only a matter of time, hours at most, before the floor is bare and the needles and right there in front of us.

Never take no for the anwser when reaching for your dreams.

Se os sofrimentos da vida parecem longos, que seria se a ele se juntasse a lembrança do passado?

pois é preciso mais coragem para vencer a si mesmo do que para vencer aos outros.

What Paul did not know was that Laine was broke, and homeless, and sleeping in the back room of Secunda's office, and that he was trying to keep body and soul together with a Tin Pan Alley job, writing songs and recording demos at Essex Music in the hope that other artists would record them and earn him some royalties. He was writing a song when Paul telephoned.

Child, the more you want to hurry life up, the slower it gets.

But most are fueled by hope.

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.