Quotes About Perseverance

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.

To follow, without halt, one aim There's the secret of success.

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success.

Und wenn er auch nur noch die Kraft für eine einzige winzig kleine Bewegung hatte, auf die Freiheit hin, wie sinnlos und nutzlos diese Bewegung auch sein mochte, er wollte diese Bewegung doch noch gemacht haben.

Wait, I thought to myself! He wants to wait until everything that once was dear to him is trampled under foot.

Make sure you keep crawling, George. Don't think you've been discovered. Lots of guys were discovered that way, because they were imagining they'd already been discovered and then did something foolish.

Um das zu sehen, worauf es ankommt, muss man bleiben wollen. Unmerklich verhüllten sich alle Städte für die, die sie nur zum Durchziehen brauchen.

If you're fighting and are killed, another takes up the banner and he fights and is killed too, and the next one takes up the flag and dies too. That's the natural sequence of events, for you don't get anything for nothing. But what if there's no one there who wants to take up the flag because no one knows its meaning?

Anna," the old woman said, "don't take everything so much to heart. Learn from me. There are things in this world you can change. And there are things in this world you can't change. Those things you have to put up with.

Your only problem is that you can't put up with things. But there are certain things you just have to put up with, to endure. Because eventually they'll pass.

If they strain me up tight, why, let 'em look out! I can't bear it, and I won't.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.' Amelia Earhart

For my mother, who gave so much, and climbed a mountain every day.

There was no point in weeping for ever for things that you couldn't change, things you could not have. It had stood her in good stead all of her life

Life goes on. The rules were this: you might sit for a time on the sidelines feeling overwhelmed and paralysed by it all. But sooner or later you picked yourself up and got on with it, or you were left behind.

I was beginning to understand why marriage "experts" like to say that if a couple gets through the first year of marriage they stand a good chance of making it. They all seem to agree that year one is the most difficult. (After thirteen years of marriage, I would tend to agree with them, except that they left out years two through twelve.)

As long as we tell our urban ancestors' stories, no city is ever lost. They live on, in our imaginations and on our public lands, as a promise that no matter how terrible things get, humans always try again.

She just wouldn't stop reimplementing operating system features for her programming class. The only thing keeping her alive was a feeding tube the docs had managed to force up her nose while she was in restraints.

He was right: she'd turned a shit situation into a slurry of blood-flecked diarrhea.

Humanity's story must be one of constant change because that is one way to transmute pain into hope.

From far away you could see the light ahead, a gleam that kept growing, and its brilliance seemed ever more dazzling to you huddled there in the dark the longer it took to reach it. But when at last the train burst out in the glorious sunshine, all you saw was a wasteland full of weeds and stones, and a heap of garbage.

supported him. Now suddenly, he felt his position had