2,087 Quotes About Perseverance

We all have to face our faults and mistakes, and then choose to overcome them or let them drag us down.

Living is getting knocked down time and again, then standing up time and again, and once more. It's easy to act honorable when things are coming along and all your pastures are green. Plenty difficult when the ground is dried and burned and people have connived to take even that from you. I'll sell this place, or I'll lose it. I'll go on. People who don't have hard times aren't living.

Every so often all we have is the will to carry on.

The most human thing we can do is carry on.

Mama, what kept you moving forwardthrough droughts, wild animals, loneliness?We had no choice. Sadness was as dangerous as panthers and bears. The wilderness needs your whole attention.

What is intoxication if it doesn't get into your head. What is fire if it doesn't gives a smoke. So—what's is love without perseverance. Your love is only fleeting if it doesn't gets you a beating.

Change always happens... We adjust to it. Somehow we figure out a way. We straighten what we can or learn how to like something a little crooked. That's how it is. Something breaks, you fix it as best you can. There's always a way to make something better, even if it means sweeping up the broken pieces and starting all over. That's how we keep moving, keep breathing, keep opening our eyes every morning, even when the only thing we know for sure is that we're still alive.

Because misfortune does not wait idly by until we are prepared for it.

Be like seeds; do not see dirt thrown at you as your enemy, but as ground to grow.