Quotes about Perseverance In Hardship
You may trode me in the very dirt. But still, like dust, I'll rise.
— Maya Angelou
I think we build resilience to prepare for whatever adversity we'll face. And we all face some adversity - we're all living some form of Option B.
— Sheryl Sandberg
Defeating Resistance is like giving birth. It seems absolutely impossible until you remember that women have been pulling it off successfully, with support and without, for fifty million years.
— Steven Pressfield
Some of the most radiant Christians I have ever met were "wheelchair" saints. May God give you grace to "triumph in affliction".
— Billy Graham
After having been for a while at Hampton, I found myself in difficulty because I did not have books and clothing. Usually, however, I got around the trouble about books by borrowing from those who were more fortunate than myself.
— Booker T. Washington
My friends have made the story of my life.
— Helen Keller
We have all been thrown down so low that nobody thought we'd ever get up again; but we have been long enough trodden now; we will come up again, and now I am here.
— Sojourner Truth
her unwavering confidence in an arm which she believed to be stronger than all others combined could have raised from her sinking spirit.
— Sojourner Truth
Calisto, a companion of Ignatius, and who on recovering from a severe illness had heard of the imprisonment of Ignatius, hastened from Segnovia, where he was staying, and came to Alcala, that he, too, might be cast into prison.
— Ignatius of Loyola
Toes are scarce among veteran blubber-room men.
— Herman Melville
Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.
— Ernest Hemingway
For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.
— Barbara Kingsolver