Quotes about Perseverance

At the end of the day, the circumstances of your life-- what you look like,where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home--none of that is an excuse... where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No ones written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write you own destiny.You make your own future.

Don't let your failures define you.

Whatever you do won't be enough, I heard their voices say. Try anyway.

Beneath the layers of hurt, beneath the ragged laughter, I heard a willingness to endure. Endure—and make music that wasn't there before.

O, fly and never tire, Fly and never tire, Fly and never tire, There's a great camp-meeting in the Promised Land. —FROM AN AFRICAN AMERICAN SPIRITUAL

Let us keep that promise — that American promise — and in the words of Scripture -- hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess.

As she spoke, her voice never wavered; it was the voice of someone who has forced a larger meaning out of tragedy. Or

The road we have taken to this point has not been easy. But then again the road to change never is.

The audacity of hope! I still remember my grandmother, singing in the house, 'There's a bright side somewhere Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚¦ don't rest till you find it Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚¦.'" "That's right!" "The audacity of hope!

The trick is not caring that it hurts.

But know this America: we will meet them

Sometimes you were just screwed, and the best you could do was have a stiff drink—and light up a cigarette.