Quotes About Perseverance

Don Quijote no fue conquistador, fue conquistado. Pero en su derrota, tal como nos enseñó Cervantes, demostró que 'la única cosa que nos queda frente a esa ineludible derrote que se llama vida es intentar comprenderla'.

Don Quijote no fue conquistador, fue conquistado. Pero en su derrota, tal como nos enseñó Cervantes, demostró que 'la única cosa que nos queda frente a esa ineludible derrota que se llama vida es intentar comprenderla'.

The man who fights learns to pray, you know. It's a splendid Russian proverb.

Lay off her Ben, yelled Jake. Cally registered that he was defending her. "She's doing her best!" "Her best? That'll look good on our tombstones. RIP Bond Team—Cally did her best!

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. ERNEST:

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To go elsewhere would mean starting all over. Learning as a child does. I have been a child already. I will not yield one bit, one speck of the power and influence I have now.

Trying to build my dreams with what I have now, it's like building a forty-five story house with thirty-four bricks. (DoubleDuce.)

The cost of survival of the lineage may be a lifetime of discomfort.

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There are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman

From her character in the HBO miniseries: The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

Good things happen slowly and bad things happen fast. Those were comforting words, and they comfort me today.

Good things happen slowly, said a doctor in the ICU months ago, and bad things happen fast. Those were comforting words, and they comfort me today. Recovery is a long, slow process. There are good days and bad days for both of us.

There is a high cost of living to be paid by a Jew. He has to be exalted in order to be normal in a world that is neither propitious for nor sympathetic to his survival.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.