#persevere

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#average #boy #bus #bus driver #discouragement

I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our worst instincts. What can be more absurd than choosing to carry a burden that one really wants to throw to the ground? To detest, and yet to strive to preserve our existence? To caress the serpent that devours us, and hug him close to our bosoms till he has gnawed into our hearts? ↗

— Voltaire

#suicide #life

Everything has a way of coming full circle. It takes patience and perseverance to see a dream through...to close that circle. Because some dreams, like some circles, can be much bigger than others. ↗

— Karen Dale Trask

#dreams #perseverence #dreams

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. ↗

— Plato

#children #education #end #into #man

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up. ↗

— Steve Lacy

#go #important #just #know #periods

Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead. ↗

— Mary Pierce

#be patient #clear #lead #need #patient

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#finds #hero #i #i think #individual

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#finds #hero #individual #obstacles #ordinary

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#forbear #friends #gaiety #give #grace

Surviving is good, but overcoming is better. ↗

— Shelley Hendrix

#dream #dreams #following-dreams #inspirational #overcome-fear