Perserverance Quotes

Goals are my north star.  My compass.  The map that guides me along the road I wish to travel.  Goals are motivations with wind in their sails—they carry me forward despite the storms.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Don’t do it! Don’t you dare think about giving up! EVERYTHING has a process. Work with the process, not against it. Move forward with purpose and never stop believing. You can do this! You know you can.

~ Stephanie Lahart

There IS a better future for you! Get rid of that negative and defeated attitude. Stop tearing yourself down and learn to build yourself up. Speak positively about yourself. If you’re not satisfied with who you are and where you’re at in your life, have the courage to make a change and be a person that you can be proud of. Change can be scary, but change for the better is very rewarding in the end. You can do it! Do it for YOU.

~ Stephanie Lahart

No one escapes suffering. Everyone goes through tough times. Suffering is a part of our human condition and cannot be avoided. Setbacks, failures, pain, suffering, and hardships are all a part of life, but whether we are able to find peace within the storm depends on our resilience and perseverance. Whenever one of our children tells us that they don’t want to fail at something, we remind them that there will be times in their life when they will fail, but it’s how they come through it that matters. If we choose to focus on the negative, the failure itself, the darkness will oppress and consume us. Eventually it will destroy a person. We need to embrace the fact that we’re human and our lives will be filled with suffering and hardship, but we have the ultimate hope and victory in Our Lord.

~ Karen Santorum

I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer.Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview(Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six un-publishable ones. Keep typing!)

~ Ray Bradbury

Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure.

~ Habeeb Akande

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.

~ Jennifer Niven

Because often it is the reader of adventures who saves the world. Because no matter how bad things look, or how rough things get, the reader keeps turning the pages... A reader never walks away from her own story.

~ R.k. Ryals

Do you know why people like me are shy about being capitalists? Well, its because we, for as long as we have known you, were capital, like bales of cotton and sacks of sugar, and you were commanding, cruel capitalists, and the memory of this so strong, the experience so recent, that we can't quite bring ourselves to embrace this idea that you think so much of. As for hat we were like before we met you, I no longer care. No periods of time over which my ancestors held sway, no documentation of complex civilisations, is any comfort to me. Even if I really came from people who were living like monkeys in trees, it was better to be that than what happened to me, what I became after I met you.

~ Jamaica Kincaid

If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

There are three choices in this life: be good, get good, or give up.

~ David Shore

The true sign of a robust and mature life rests in how many times that life has been knocked down, for to be incessantly knocked down and yet find oneself still standing means that someone had the resolve to get up that many times plus one.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.

~ Tom Clancy

I don't stop when I am tired, I stop when I am done

~ James Bond

Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Marriage is a million piece puzzle, a pristine and exciting pursuit at the beginning that gradually becomes a daunting task, usually more challenging than anticipated.   It is only those truly committed to solving that puzzle who witness in the end the miraculous outcome of every tiny piece laid out and pressed together in an inspiring and envious creation—a treasure only time, resoluteness, and perseverance could create. 

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

No one creates a perfect resume on their first try. Writing a perfect resume is a messy process, but the easiest way to start is by simply getting in the right mindset and putting pen to paper.

~ Matthew T. Cross

Never shame your comrades by letting their death get you killed

~ Rachel Bach

The idea of a vision is revolutionary and ground breaking but achieving it may be back breaking.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

...no one has ever doubted you would die for those you love ... the question then becomes would you live?

~ Elizabeth Isaacs

The thing about being powerful is that it may be a limited edition... as the source of the power goes you go, but becoming empowered will last a lifetime.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

Perhaps it wasn't age but what you were capable of, the lengths to which you were willing to go to get what you wanted, that mattered most.

~ Anna Jarzab

You have the choice to either pray then plan or pray and wait, but keep in mind miracles are usually accessed somewhere between the 11th hour and resurrection.

~ Johnnie Dent Jr.

At the end of the day let their be no regrets, only a desire to do more tomorrow than you did today.

~ Noel Dejesus

Its was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one's ability and beyond, so that thereafter one has a new standard by which to judge oneself.

~ Kazuo Ishiguro

No,” Joan vowed. She grabbed Bash’s shirt. “I don’t want this. Didn’t want this to happen.”Screams resonated.Bash continued quietly, “None of us do. That’s not up to us. We have to decide what we’re going to do with what we’re given. Play the cards dealt to us.

~ Cate Campbell Beatty

A friendship has no guidelines.

~ Unarine Ramaru

In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality.

~ Kristian Kan

And human will is the strongest force ever created. There are those born to succeed and those who are determined to succeed. The former fall into it, and the latter pursue it all costs. They won't be denied.Nothing daunts them.

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Inspiration does not linger in one place over time, therefore human effort shouldn't be scaled on earlier attempt.

~ Unarine Ramaru

More often than not, at the end of the day (or a month, or a year), you realize that your initial idea was wrong, and you have to try something else. These are the moments of frustration and despair. You feel that you have wasted an enormous amount of time, with nothing to show for it. This is hard to stomach. But you can never give up. You go back to the drawing board, you analyze more data, you learn from your previous mistakes, you try to come up with a better idea. And every once in a while, suddenly, your idea starts to work. It's as if you had spent a fruitless day surfing, when you finally catch a wave: you try to hold on to it and ride it for as long as possible. At moments like this, you have to free your imagination and let the wave take you as far as it can. Even if the idea sounds totally crazy at first.

~ Edward Frenkel

So the criminals win, that's what you're saying? For now they do. But it's a long game, Jamison. And I always play for the long game.

~ David Baldacci

He who limps is still walking.

~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I could just like down, right here, and let the sand cover me like a blanket. But my legs, clumsy as they've become, keep stumbling forward on their own. I'm not frightened and I'm not sorry. Not even a little bit. Nikko and I shared this fate, six years apart. We both walked into the desert, and we will both have died out here, under the wide open sky. At this moment, I feel closer to him than I have in years. Maybe that's what Endd meant when she said that none of us are ever truly alone.

~ Joaquin Lowe