Quotes about Perseverance

I'm saying when God slams a door on you it's probably a shitstorm. You're going to end up in rubble. But it's okay because without all that crap overhead, you're standing in the daylight.

People had to manage terrible truths.

it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.

The daily work—that goes on, it adds up. It goes into the ground, into crops, into children's bellies and their bright eyes. Good things don't get lost.

He's that same kind of good like you are. Like there's some metal or something in you that won't melt down, no matter what.

For some, a lousy day's work will get you yelled at. For farmers, it's live or die.

I went on foot because I still had feet to carry me.

Every one of us is called upon, probably many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job or a limb or a loved one, a graduation, bringing a new baby home: it's impossible to think at first how this all will be possible. Eventually, what moves it all forward is the subterranean ebb and flow of being alive among the living.

Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, i have taught myself joy, over and over again.

We'd worked so hard for God's favor, yet it seemed God was still waiting for some extra labor on our part, and it was up to my father to figure out what.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

There is no effectiveness without discipline, and there is no discipline without character.