Quotes About Perseverance

The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake

You cannot draw lines and compartments and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair

Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize...

In those days, continued Ishvar, it seemed to me that that was all one could expect in life. A harsh road strewn with sharp stones and, if you were lucky, a little grain. And later? Later I discovered there were different types of roads. And a different way of walking on each.

too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.

He had learned that dignity could not be acquired from accoutrements and accessories; it cam unasked, it grew from one's ability to endure.

Losing, and losing again, is the very basis of the life process, till all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence.

the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair, to embrace change.

Where humans were concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure; and sorrow, for the hopelessness of it all.

You see, you cannot draw lines and compartments, and refuse to budge beyond them. Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

Rohinton Mistry

But in the end, time is a noose around the neck, strangling slowly.

Sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping-stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

There is always hope-hope enough to balance our despair. Or we would be lost.

Afternoon with Michel, sorting maman's belongings. Began the day by looking at her photographs. A cruel mourning begins again (but had never ended). To begin again without resting. Sisyphus.

I limp along through my mourning.

In reality, it is unimportant that I have no likelihood of being really fulfilled (I am quite willing for this to be the case). Only the will to fulfillment shines, indestructible, before me.

Our plan is one, one and again one alone—to reach the pole. For that goal, I have decided to throw everything else aside.

The other side of that coin, which Nansen found hard to fathom, was that someone like Shackleton was only true to himself when improvising; fighting against the odds. He would wither in the face of systematic preparation, and only in a crisis did he come into his own.

and perhaps tomorrow may see the end of these difficulties. Difficulties are just things to overcome after all."44

Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from

Sadly, the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" ("someday I'll do this, someday I'll do that") is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro

I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing of this story.

The world is glutted with magnificent three-page starts, and the road to hell is paved with unfinished manuscripts.