Quotes About Perseverance

Jiminy had held vague ambitions of becoming a private eye or a feisty attorney. But these aspirations had taken a backseat to the day-to-day responsibilities of just getting by.

Bo felt sorry for Jiminy that she had to expend so much effort to ask a simple question. What a difficult way to go through life. He had his challenges, but most of them felt imposed from the outside, not created within.

Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain.

To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.

A warrior believes in an end she can't see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to me.

A famous author is a promoter who never quit.

Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.

A ogni movimento devo avere tre punti d'appoggio, come dice la vecchia regola dell'alpinismo, o due mani e un piede, o due piedi e una mano, mentre l'altro, piede o mano, cerca il nuovo appiglio.

We do not need to find something we are best at; what is important is simply that we do our best.

Strife and chaos always traveled hand in hand with opportunity, though. It was just a question of whether one was strong and clever enough to take advantage.

Let me drive you out of the fire into a day of humble miracles.

I understand—" I gasp. ". . . and you will not stand in my way." "I will not stand in your way," I parrot. It's all I can manage.

Do not despair whatever happens for behind the clouds is always the rainbow.

It was a good fight, friend.

The only way to do a thing Is do it when you can, And do it cheerfully, and sing And work and think and plan. The only real unhappy one Is he who dares to shirk; The only really happy one Is he who cares to work.

Your mathematics seem to me very like a bottle of mixed pickles the more you fish for what you want the less chance you have of getting it.

You must walk. It is a long journey, through a country that is sometimes pleasant and sometimes dark and terrible.

With Dorothy hard at work, the

I wouldn't be surprised if Ruggedo melted Tik-Tok in one of his furnaces and made copper pennies of him. In that case, I would still keep going, remarked Tik-Tok, calmly. Pennies do, said Betsy regretfully.

a dash to liberty or to death. The

but love is a stubborn thing to conquer. When you think you've killed it, it's liable to bob up again as strong as ever.

The Tin Woodman was about to reply when he heard a low growl, and turning

For a generous deed lives longer than a great battle or a king's decree or a scholar's essay, because it spreads and leaves its mark on all nature and endures through many generations.

He worked hard from morning till night and did not know what joy was.