Quotes About Perseverance

You have to accept the fact that we don't always get what we want. Sometimes life kicks you when you're down." "So when that happens, what do you do?" "Well…I suppose I'd cry for a while. Ain't nothin' wrong with a good cry. Then I suppose I'd pick myself up and get on with my life, 'cause if I didn't, then whoever or whatever got me down would have won.

There never was night that had no morn.

There are those who wake up each morning to conquer the day, and then there are those of us who wake up only because we have to. We live in the shadow of every neighborhood. We own little corner stores, live in run-down apartments that get too little light, and walk the same streets day after day. We spend our afternoons gazing lazily out of windows. Somnambulists, all of us. Someone else said it better: we wake to sleep and sleep to wake.

Reality had settled in, and they're both still waiting to recover.

If the last thing a man has to hold on to is his sense of pride and accompanying dignity, then more likely than not he will expend every last trace of energy doing so.

I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like an anvil strung around my neck just when I thought I was nearing the shore.

Hepimiz, az çok umut etmekte diretiyoruz.

S'illude, Drogo, di una grandiosa rivincita a lunga scadenza, crede di avere ancora un'immensità di tempo disponibile, rinuncia così alla minuta lotta per la vita quotidiana.

Twenty-two months had passed without bringing anything fresh and he had stayed there waiting, as if life could not but be specially lenient with him.

Et l'angoisse obscure des heures qui passent a beau se faire chaque jour plus grande, Drogo s'obstine dans l'illusion que ce qui est important n'est pas encore commencé.

Ferma, ferma!" si vorrebbe gridare, ma si capisce ch'è inutile. Tutto fugge via, gli uomini, le stagioni, le nubi; e non serve aggrapparsi alle pietre, resistere in cima a qualche scoglio, le dita stanche si aprono, le braccia si afflosciano inerti, si è trascinati ancora nel fiume, che pare lento ma non si ferma mai.

Muhakkak farkl? birÅŸeyler olagelmeli,öyle bir ÅŸey ki insan:Art?k sonuna gelmiÅŸ olsam bile beklemeye deÄŸmiÅŸ diyebilmeli.

Walking on water and developing software to specification are easy as long as both are frozen.

I can cope with Ambrosius," came Mona's voice from the shadows.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

We were all the same. Kids from nowhere going nowhere. He always saw a light through the darkness. Knew the cracks let that light in, and that those cracks could suck you up.

Il était presque dix heures et demie lorsqu'Olivia arriva à son travail, et M. Holgate menaça évidemment de la congédier. – Je suis désolée. Ma maison s'est effondrée hier soir. – Et alors ? Cela n'empêche pas les clients d'avoir envie d'acheter des livres.

From the late Dixie Lee McKeone. "TSR made me started writing under Lee McKeone, insisting their mostly male readers wouldn't want to read something written by a woman. I proved them wrong and insisted on using my entire name rather than just my middle name." (I'm one of her apprentices and that's what she told me.)

the ballerina on perfected toe Spins to the axis of a fortitude That is the sum of all her yesterdays.

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.

A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep.

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

Probably many people think that I came back to life after the Fifth Symphony. No. I came back to life after the Seventh.