Quotes About Perseverance

In reality, while we aim for excellence, we're always living on somebody's dunghill.

We cannot change what has happened. We go on from where we stand. Not even Necessity knows all ends.

A rose, with the motto Dum spiro spero , which actually I rather like—while I breathe I shall hope.

And at year's end they broke the stable door. The man and his horse, together, gallop yet, Beyond the sunset's end, the pounding hooves, Both harmony and beat for their duet.

There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.

There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying." She

We cannot change what has happened. We go on from where we stand. Not even Necessity knows all ends. I

Tolkien understood about the things that happen after the end. Because this is after the end, this is all the Scouring of the Shire, this is figuring out how to live in the time that wasn't supposed to happen after the glorious last stand. I saved the world, or I think I did, and look, the world is still here, with sunsets and interlibrary loans.

Longe dos outros, deixado num extremo, no canto mais escuro e esquerdo do telheiro, Sete-de-Ouros estava. Só e sério. Sem desperdício, sem desnorteio, cumpridor de obrigação, aproveitava para encher, mais um trecho, a infinda linguiça da vida.

A tal que, enfim, veio o dia de se sair, guerreiramente, por vales e montes, a gente toda.

O pobre sozinho, sem um cavalo, fica no seu, permanece, feito numa crôa ou ilha, em sua beira de vereda. Homem a pé, esses Gerais comem.

Every abyss is navigable by little paper boats. — João Guimarães Rosa, Tutaméia (Terceiras Estórias) Nova Fronteira; 8 edition (2009). Originally published January 1st 1976.

No real da vida, as coisas acabam com menos formato, nem acabam. Melhor assim. Pelejar por exato, dá erro contra a gente. Não se queira. Viver é muito perigoso...

O que demasia na gente é a força feia do sofrimento, própria, não é a qualidade do sofrente.

Tudo neste mundo se consegue com trabalho e quem é preto consegue menos com muito mais trabalho, então tem de trabalhar multiplicado e trabalhar em todos os trabalhos e trabalhar o tempo todo e trabalhar sem distrair e sempre acreditar que alguém quer tomar o resultado do trabalho.

Successful people are willing to do things that unsuccessful people are not willing to do.

Happy he who like Ulysses has made a glorious voyage.

Continually setting goals and striving to achieve them is what makes life worthwhile!

What allows genius to flower is not neurosis but its opposite... ordinary Sunday-school virtues such as tenacity and above all the ability to survive disappointment.

Action is the antidote to despair.

It is some accomplishment to suffer fear, but to plod on nonetheless. There is some pride in survival.

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.

When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?