Quotes about perseverance

Lord save little children! They abide. The wind blows and the rain is cold. Yet, they abide.

They fought and worked and devised intricate plans to buy more time. Basia had no doubt that they’d work just as hard to keep each other alive for even a few more minutes. It wasn’t something he’d ever had to think about before. But it did seem to be a microcosm of everything in life. No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.

“Fifteen years ago, I was selling cheap materials from my boot, going from place to place, looking for customers. I wasn’t born into wealth. I have worked hard for my success. I fought for it. It wasn’t easy, especially because my husband, Chief, he didn’t have a job. If you want to be like me in business, Adunni, you will need to work very hard. Rise about whatever life throws at you. And never, ever give up on your dreams. Do you understand?”

Breakthrough moments are often the result of many previous actions, which build up the potential required to unleash a major change

Resilience is the ability to embrace what happened.

Life is a hopeless rear guard action against an overwhelming foe; still how can we not admire those who battle on regardless?

That was the moment Hiccup took on his destiny.

He lifted his drooping head.

'I will NEVER give up fighting you, witch, even though it is too late... Even though all is lost... Even though it is impossible... Never never never...'

The witch had failed again.

Determination makes one impervious to pain.

That one won't crack, though, Mendel decided with approval; one of your flabby oak trees, Smiley was. Think you could blow him over with one puff but when it comes to the storm he's the only one left standing at the end of it.

"Doubtless the first arrow did not kill a lion."

A far more important lesson to learn from artists is not that they fail, but that they prevail. Artists make. Artists do.

It might be an impossible task, but at least it was a well-defined one. The rules for performance were no problem. He had learned them long ago on Teufel: you succeed, or you die trying. Until you succeed, you never relax. Until you die, you never give up.