Quotes About Perseverance

And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.

You are bound to go up and down, just as I did in my youth, but do keep your clarity of mind, and if fools or sages dare to criticise don't blame yourself too much.

to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther....And one fine morning-

My courage is faith—faith in the eternal resilience of me—that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does I've got to keep my lips shut and my chin high, and my eyes wide—not necessarily any silly smiling. Oh, I've been through hell without a whine quite often—and the female hell is deadlier than the male.

A bad driving and not even trying!

O ümitlerdir ki ÅŸimdi sefer etmekteyiz, biz o ak?nt?ya kar?? giden tekneler, durmadan geriye geçmiÅŸe çarp?l?p at?lsak da ne gam..

Dear little Dot, life is so damned hard. She was crying upon his shoulder. So damned hard, so damned hard, he repeated aimlessly; it just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.

Astenersi dal giudicare implica un'infinita speranza.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. And if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

I've never met a man who led a rotten life and didn't have a weak will.

best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

Back out,' he suggested after a moment. 'Put her in reverse.' 'But the WHEEL'S off!' He hesitated. 'No harm in trying,' he said.

She was a brave, hopeful woman and she was following her husband somewhere, changing herself to this kind of person or that, without being able to lead him a step out of his path, and sometimes realizing with discouragement how deep in him the guarded secret of her direction lay. And yet an air of luck clung about her, as if she were a token...

Gatsby credeva nella luce verde, nel futuro orgastico che anno dopo anno si ritira davanti a noi. Ieri c'è sfuggito, ma non importa: domani correremo più forte, allungheremo di più le braccia ... e un bel mattino... Così continuiamo a remare, barche contro corrente, risospinti senza posa nel passato.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement --discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

It is astonishing how much worse one mosquito can be than a swarm. A swarm can be prepared against, but one mosquito takes on a personality—a hatefulness, a sinister quality of the struggle to the death.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning — So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. - Nick Carraway

I talk with the authority of failure.

Y así vamos adelante, botes que reman contra la corriente, incesantemente arrastrados hacia el pasado.

Smart men play close to the line because they have to--some of them can't stand it, so they quit.

My life... my life has got to be like this. It's got to keep going up.

Ne gariptir, ac?dan kaç?nmaya çal???rken, bazen bizi o noktaya getiren ayak izlerinin bir bir üzerinden geçmek gerekebilir.

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of the individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye.

Sweetness is hard. Real sweetness is a sort of hardness—and strength. ~Lois