Quotes About Perseverance

I figure I'll win the fight in twenty years or so anyways when I end up with a decent life and their unemployed and living at home.

Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

remember that what has once been done may be done again.

Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, Do your worst, for I will do mine! and you will be remembered forever.

but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.

Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.

Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)

Return to the world still more brilliant because of your former sorrows.

You're not worried about anything, are you? said Danglers. It seems to me everything's going perfectly for you. That's exactly what worries me, replied Dantes. I don't think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

God is always the last resource.

One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

Misfortune does not help us to believe.

Great is the truth, fire can not burn, nor water can drown it!

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

I will follow him to hell, and that is saying not a little, as I believe him entirely capable of the descent.

He was a fine, tall, slim young fellow, with black eyes, and hair as dark as the raven's wing; and his whole appearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger.

You were able to wait,' said Dantes, sighing. 'Your long labor gave you a constant occupation, and when you didn't have your work to distract you, you had your hopes to console you.

Patience is not my dominant virtue. --D'Artagnan

Come now, be a man!' he thought. 'We are used to adversity; let's not be crushed by a mere disappointment, or else I shall have suffered for nothing. The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.

Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.

Sometimes salvation is found in agony.

The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope. ~Edmond Dantes