"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
Perseverance Quotes
"You don't have to see the whole staircase to take the first step."
"One day you will tell your story of how you overcame what you went through and it will become someone else's survival guide."
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."
"Don't look up at the whole mountain… focus on that next step, and do the next right thing."
"Every storm runs out of rain."
"The only way out is through."
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."
"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it."
"It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey."
"Sometimes when you're in a dark place, you think you've been buried, but actually you've been planted."
"No mud, no lotus."
"Remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."
"The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same thing."
"I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
"It always seems impossible until it's done."
"And falling's just another way to fly."
"The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving."
"To reach a port we must set sail – sail, not tie at anchor; sail, not drift."
"It does not matter how slowly you go, only that you do not stop."