Quotes About Perseverance

Do what has to be done, regardless of the consequences.

There was always something worse.

Plan for the day when all your plans fail, when those you trust betray you, when your certainty cracks like a rotten egg and you are alone in the storm.

It's the small sins that save you. That's how you survive when all around you are getting their heads sawed off.

Never quit, Rikki. No one can beat you if you don't quit.

How many things would you attempt If you knew you could not fail

By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body— the wishbone.

Hope is not found in a way out but a way through.

The hurt is not enough: I long for weight and strength. To feel the earth as rough to all my length

He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through

For, dear me, why abandon a belief, Merely because it ceases to be true, Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt, It will turn true again, for so it goes.

Lodged The rain to the wind said, 'You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed. That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged -- though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a bubble in ascent. I rode up on one till the bubble burst, And when that left me to sink back reversed I was no worse off than I was at first. I'd catch another bubble if I waited. The thing was to get now and then elated.

The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.

They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed So low for long, they never right themselves.

Holding the curve of one position, counting an endless repetition.

And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

Working faithfully 8 hours a day, you may eventually get to be the boss and work 12 hours a day.

He never got up high enough to see. That's why I don't advise your trying this side. He tried this side. I've always meant to go And look myself, but you know how it is: It doesn't seem so much to climb a mountain You've worked around the foot of all your life.

Posso resumir em três palavras o que aprendi sobre a vida: a vida continua.

For, dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true. Cling to it long enough, and not a doubt It will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life Is due to truths being in and out of favor. As I sit here, and oftentimes, I wish I could be monarch of a desert land I could devote and dedicate forever To the truths we keep coming back and back to.

If I can with confidence say That still for another day, Or even another year, I will be there for you, my dear, It will be because, though small As measured against the All, I have been so instinctively thorough About my crevice and burrow.