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Quotes About Perseverance

Q: What does the human spirit do after ten days without sleep, and ten days of isolation tempered only by nocturnal threat sessions? A: It dreams up a solution.
~ Anna Funder
Si tu tiens vraiment à quelque chose dans la vie, eh bien, fais ce qu'il faut pour ne pas le perdre.
~ Anna Gavalda
Es ist Jahre her, da hatte das Leben für sie aufgegeben, als Charles auf schmerzhafte Weise bewusst wurde, wie schwer es ihm fiel, die Pläne für das Projekt zu lesen, das andere das Leben nannten.
~ Anna Gavalda
Je vais te dire quelque chose, mon ami: c'est plus facile d'être malheureux qu'heureux, et moi, tu m'entends, je n'aime pas les gens qui choisissent la facilitê, je n'aime pas les geignards! Sois heureux, merde! Fais ce qu'il faut pour être heureux!
~ Anna Gavalda
Oh que ça m'énerve, ça! Bien sûr, c'est plus facile de se dire qu'on est nul et ne rien faire! Bien sûr! C'est une fatalité! C'est si simple de penser qu'on est maudit! Alors quoi? Quels sont tes projects maintenant?
~ Anna Gavalda
J'aime les gens qui prennent leur vie en main, moi ! Je n'aime pas les feignants qui se font plaindre.
~ Anna Gavalda
Vai k?dreiz k?ds jau ir uzdrošin?jies jums iebilst? – es pajaut?ju.. Ne jau k?ds. Visa mana dz?ve.
~ Anna Gavalda
Life is stronger than you are, even when you deny it, even when you neglect it, even when you refuse to admit it.
~ Anna Gavalda
Alors c'est une connerie l'amour? C'est ça? ça ne marche jamais? Si, ça marche. Mais il faut se battre. Se battre un petit peu. Un petit peu chaque jour, avoir le courage d'être soi-même.
~ Anna Gavalda
recover. He
~ Anna Jacobs
stand the sods up against a wall
~ Anna Jacobs
The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That's the way a poet looks for words. With muscles, gestures.
~ Anna Kamienska
You mustn't be so afraid of life - it's all we've got. Don't let it hurt you so much.
~ Anna Kavan
So this was how he lived now, getting jittery because a bus pulled up near. Well, he was not going on like that. It was not good enough. The one person who could help him had not appeared. He probably never would. But there must be some other way. He knew that there was another way although for the moment he couldn't think what it was. Soon it would come back to him, in a minute he would remember the way out, the way where he was going.
~ Anna Kavan
You don't like it here? Why didn't you keep out, then, for God's sake, while you had the chance? Anyhow, it's no good moaning and snivelling now. Put a good face on it. Be tough. Show the crowd you can take it. You're an individualist, aren't you? To hell with the crowd. What do you care about them? You're here because you've got no time for the crowd. What do you care about them and their damnfool heaven? To hell with heaven, anyway.
~ Anna Kavan
They are honourable and precious to me, these books, in proportion to their great heroism. They are like members of a suicide squad who do not hesitate to engage the enormously superior enemy, life, upon my behalf.
~ Anna Kavan
I started auditioning when I was about 10 and I didn't get my first job until I was 12, and two years at that age is really hard.
~ Anna Kendrick
Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.
~ Anna Lee
Is knowledge the pearl of price? That, too, may be purchased -- by steady application, and long solitary hours of study and reflection. Bestow these, and you shall be wise.
~ Anna Letitia Barbauld
But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.
~ Anna Letitia Barbauld
come un cavallo da tiro ha la sensazione che Il suo carico cresce di minuto in minuto, e le zampe gli si piegano, ma gli occhi miti non riescono a guardare indietro, così lei non vedeva da quale parte fluisse questa enorme e inutile vita su lei, e solo sapeva questo: che doveva portarla.
~ Anna Maria Ortese
When I look back on my life's greatest traumas...I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at the time, there was an end to them.
~ Anna Maxted
Lot's of things in life aren't right, but most things get better with time.
~ Anna Myers
But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.
~ Anna Neagle