Perseverance In Hard Times Quotes & Sayings

I take with me the conscience of defeat as a victory banner. — Fernando Pessoa

God's going to work everything out and use you in ways you can't even imagine. — C.B. Cook

When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen. — Bethany Hamilton

Living is getting knocked down time and again, then standing up time and again, and once more. It's easy to act honorable when things are coming along and all your pastures are green. Plenty difficult when the ground is dried and burned and people have connived to take even that from you. I'll sell this place, or I'll lose it. I'll go on. People who don't have hard times aren't living. — Nancy E. Turner

We're kidding on that. One of the things I insisted upon when we went into this project was that we are full partners, going fifty-fifty, both on the money and on the say of what's going on with the books. — Robert Asprin

Why speak of the use
of poetry? Poetry
is what uses us. — Hayden Carruth

Human females, they're kind of crazy during this time aren't they?
If you chose to believe the stories written by male writers.
They heard a bang and thump from the kitchen. Followed by Meg yelling at something.
That many males can't be wrong. — Anne Bishop

I know when I'm not wanted. — Mario Montez

God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them. — C.S. Lewis

Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Just past hell lies paradise.
Sometimes we have to remind ourselves of that.

Serina Hartwell Author of The Hidden Saga — Serina Hartwell

I've never planned my career, really. It just comes along, and I do whatever comes next! — Sylvester McCoy

God always has a plan. This isn't his fault. This is a test, something designed to help you grow closer to God. And. I know, somehow, God will use it. — C.B. Cook

Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of. — Vance Havner

To sail beyond the sunset ... I'd thought that beautiful, once. But now I knew it was a wasted effort, chasing sunsets. There was nothing on the other side. — Susanna Kearsley

The fact that I get to write and direct my own personal story is an amazing thing. — Nicole Holofcener

We are not used to persons who do things simply for the love of god whom they don't believe in. — Ayn Rand

There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable. — Adam Driver

Every great accomplishment has its share of struggle, adversity and pain. Great achievement cannot exist without them. To reap the rewards of success in our marriages, in the lives of our children, and in our professional careers we must be prepared to push through some pretty tough moments. But trust me... on the other side of that struggle awaits an intrinsic reward that is worth more than gold. ~Jason Versey — Jason Versey

You can't just run away from uncomfortable situation. You have to develop new strategy to graciously handle the situation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously. — Donna J. Haraway

Books are at the core of what we are.... without them, we are husks of what we can, and most definitely will be because of our sense of intellect, empathy and perseverance through these hard times.. — Jack Bailey

Affliction is a good man's shining time. — Edward Young

I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who, in appropriating to himself my inner mass of pain and confusion, had given me the unlikely name of Holden Caulfield. — Stephen Metcalf