Quotes about Perseverance

What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.

My grandmother told me once that when you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well, but that's not the way things turn out in the end. Eventually, you pick yourself up and look out the window, and once you do you see everything that was there before the world ended is out there still. There are the same apple trees and the same songbirds, and over our heads, the very same sky that shines like heaven, so far above us we can never hope to reach such heights.

If there be a cure, seek till you find it. If there be none, never mind it.

But what you give up you can learn to live without, even if it causes you heartbreak at the start.

What is broken can also be mended.

He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had.

He backed off, the way he always does, but it won't happen a second time. If he ever sees her again he's going to go right up to her and ask her to marry him, that's what he'll do. He's sick of letting fate roll right past him.

I'd been bitten by a lion, but you had to look inside me to see the scar.

Life is trouble, brother. You've got to fight for what you want.

Hard times make for simple minds.

You once said that just as anything whole can be broken, anything broken can be put back together again.

Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.