Quotes about Perseverance

In order to get to the rainbow you must be able to deal with the rain.

The way I see it, you've gotta put up with the rain to get a rainbow.

The way I see it, if you want a rainbow you have to put up with the rain.

I look back on all that now, and I realize this helped to build my character. It helped me build my own strength. So even the bad times were good. There were good times as well as bad times. But that's how memories are made, and that's why I'm sitting here today.

The way I see it, if you want a rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

But I had to work ten times as hard to get half the attention.

If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Yes, I said to myself, there are things I will never be able to do again. I don't like that and may even hate it, but that doesn't change the way things are. The sooner I make peace with that fact and accept the way things are, the sooner I'll be able to live in peace and enjoy my new normalcy.

I've learned that if I stay busy, especially by helping others, I don't think about my pain. In an odd way, my pain is its own therapy. I intend to go on until I can't go anymore.

God had chosen to keep me alive. Even in my worst moments of depression and self-pity, I never forgot that. Christy

Most of the time when people have that if-you-can-do-it attitude, I nod, acknowledge what they're saying, and add, "I'm just doing the best I can." And really, that's all I did during the worst days. Sometimes "the best I can" was nothing but to endure. Even when I struggled with depression, it was still the best I could do.

Most of life's battles are won or lost in the mind.