Quotes about Perseverance

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

Our life is always deeper than we know, is always more divine than it seems, and hence we are able to survive degradations and despairs which otherwise must engulf us.

I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.

Life is a test and this world a place of trial.

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.

In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!

I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.

Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

Notice how those who have medicated away their hardships with illegal drugs, alcohol, or sex can seem immature. They may look forty-five, but they have the character of an adolescent. Find a person who has weathered storms rather than avoided them and you will find someone who is wise.