Quotes About Perseverance

But because New York was the sort of place it was, there were also many artists with true backbone – robust people who could not be broken. And these artists were doing good work.

Giving up is losing.

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much labouring.

Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day.

Las mareas calmas no crean marineros hábiles.

Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

Does everyone have a pain that can be wrested from within only along with their heart, and does everyone have to do something before....

The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom. ("A Story About The Most Important Thing")

We must finish this construction and not start building anew.

Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

Trouble is to man what rust is to iron

If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can

He who can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

Hope for miracles, but don't rely on one.

Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.

No matter how much I prove and prod, I cannot quite believe in God; But oh, I hope to God that He Unswervingly believes in me.

To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.

Amazing how much one could take and then all of a sudden he broke." "True.

This is what I know: if we stopped writing now, we would never make it to Paris," Fabienne said. "You see, it's like a game. We don't know when the game is going to be over, but since we've already begun, and since we don't have another game to play just now, we may as well stick with this one.

But the thing is, a wife is a wife and you can't ditch her like a worn shirt after a life.

When people talk about starting over, it's only wishful thinking: what came before, what happened yesterday, did not come or happen in vain.

Rather, I want one day to be able to say to myself: Dear friend, we have waited this out.