Perseverance Quotes - Page 21

Yes, my scars shape meToday, I have learnt to coverit with fabric made of hope, faith, perseverance, and determination. For this, I am grateful to life

Vijaya Gowrisankar

But the Count hadn’t the temperament for revenge; he hadn’t the imagination for epics; and he certainly hadn’t the fanciful ego to dram of empires restored. No. His model for mastering his circumstances would be a different sort of captive altogether: an Anglican washed ashore. Like Robinson Crusoe stranded on the Isle of Despair, the count would maintain his resolve by committing to the business of practicalities. Having dispensed with dreams of quick discovery, the world’s Crusoes seek shelter and a source of fresh water; they teach themselves to make fire from flint; they study their island’s topography, it’s climate, its flora and fauna, all the while keeping their eyes trained for sails on the horizon and footprints in the sand.

But if you ask me what I remember (about 1945), I will say it was the year Franklin D. Roosevelt died and I got one of his flowers. I will tell you that yellow rose give me the courage to do the right thing even if it was hard. I will say it was the time in my life when I learned all of us is fragile as a mimosa blossom. But the miracle of all is, When push comes to shove, we can be just as tough as Hickory. It mostly hurts at first. After a while it starts to feel better.

Joyce Moyer Hostetter

It will get easier each time, I think. I hope. I just have to keep trying.

Jenny Han

I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.

Jeanette Winterson

Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even as she began to slip into the gloaming of her life, the primal need to live…to survive...clawed at her soul.

R. W. Patterson

Life's a gloomy puddle, until you start jumping in it.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

Your fate is never determined when your massive imagination is.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

How to win in life:1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow5 don't let people tell you it cant be done6 make no excuses

The devil's happy when the critics run you off.

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression.

After all these years, all I know is, I need not to do anything as a part of remorse.All I need is to write.Because,'Poetry forgives.

Nishikant

Planning and perseverance will bring your mission to fruition.

Rob Liano

All she captures is a moment and what she calls it is a memory,Sometimes, it is assumptions that we use; all we need is a theory,Because you don’t know what is there in the future,And all you need is a vision to make a perfect picture.I feel that I have known you for a century,And whatever she calls is a memory.

Nishikant

Chimerical words, the words were written,Some are wasted; some are still on the page,Tattered words, the words were written,Some are young, some are aged,Gloomy words, the words were written,Some are unspoken, some are told,Words were hurt, though they can heal,Words are breathless, though can feel,Words won hearts, words shattered hearts,Words lost battles, words won wars,Wars within, words had scars.

Nishikant

His pen spoke more to her than he ever did”.In the war of words, some are unwritten and some are unspoken.

Nishikant

How might I get over this? How would I be able to overlook the way he used to be with me? How could I overlook that his fingers touched my indiscernible soul before it twisted my nipples? How might I overlook his essence that still is in my garments? Despite everything, I still hear you saying that you love me. Though I know you don't.

Nishikant

A flower does not fulfill its destiny until it blooms, and a star does not fulfill its destiny until it shines.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Stars do not hide from darkness. Roses do not hide from thorns. Diamonds do not hide from pressure.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Inspiration may come from many places but motivation - the love of life, daily drive and the will to thrive - that must come from you from within

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Every failure if you let it is an opportunity to reinvent yourself and move forward.

Jerry Gladstone

I gave up many times but I never quit.

If everyone could be a successful and rich author, there would be no point in working so hard. Where is the fun in that?

You opinions about me does not change who I am.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The difference between those that can and those that can’t is attitude.

All the things that are worth doing, take time.

Mos Def

Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

You got up off the bathroom floor. That’s a start. Now, just stay off the floor. After all—aside from winning the lottery—all any of us can ever really hope for is more days spent standing tall than spent in pieces on the floor.

You can'tstop dreamingjust becausethe night neverseems toend.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.

Boy, the solid things you can hold in your hands are never all you've got. They're the least of what belong to you. The qualities inside you, those are what you've really got to defend yourself with.

Traci L. Slatton

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. – Bill W.

Bill W.

Being alive is sign of strength!

The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud --- the obstacles of life and its suffering. ... The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. ... Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Never, never, never give in!

Winston S. Churchill

With adequate planning, passion and perseverance, you can achieve the God-given goals.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Christians walk as strangers in the world: They are untamed. They are free. To persevere with love, yet untamed by man, is often what leaves that open space for divine revelation when God so wills.

Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.

Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You.

San Juan de la Cruz

A true philosopher must never give up.

Jostein Gaarder

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

Aberjhani

Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.

Amit Ray

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Babe Ruth

That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.

Madeleine K. Albright

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Anthony Robbins

What is grander than a country and more valuable than gold? Strength of heart.

Cornelius Elmore Addison

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.

Mary Anne Radmacher

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

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