Perseverance Quotes

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

“This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes — that's a universal truth. The good part is you get to choose how you're going to mess up. Girls will be your friends; they'll act like it anyway. But remember, some come and some go. The ones that stay with you through everything are your true best friends — don't let them go. Sisters often make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, they'll come and go too, and most of them are going to break your heart. You can't give up because if you give up you'll never find your soulmate, that half who makes you whole. Just because you fail once doesn't mean you'll fail at everything. Keep trying. Hold on and always believe in yourself. Keep your head high, keep your chin up, and keep smiling — life has a lot to offer.”

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case, you fail by default.”

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me: Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”

“"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“Things change. Friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.”

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

“So it's not going to be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're going to have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, every day. You and me... every day.”

“Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.”

“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”

“Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.”

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible!'”

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”

“Hold fast to dreams.”

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”

“Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.”

“So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. Maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain: when you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

“Promise Yourself.”

“And now I'm looking at you, and you're asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before (bits of myself to the Lightwoods, to Isabelle and Alec, but it took years), but Clary, since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely. I still do. If you want me.”

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”

“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”

“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they attack you and want to burn you. Then they build monuments to you.”