Quotes About Perseverance

What a feeble thing intelligence is, with its short steps, its waverings, its pacing back and forth, its disastrous retreats!

Every man is born a success, he makes himself a failure.

It was necessary for him to have hope. So he built hope, desperately and tenaciously out of the stuff of his dream, a hope flimsy enough, to be sure, a hope that was cracked and dissipated a dozen times a day, a hope mothered by mockery, but, nevertheless, a hope that would be brawn and sinew to his self-respect.

Now there was this scarcely saved waif of disaster bringing him the essence of a continent...

Is your generation so soft that they talk of going to pieces if life doesn't always present itself in terms of beautiful, easy decisions?

Yet her tired heart, beating until it shook her breasts, made her sure that there was still life in her, desperately shaken, threatened…

What little I've accomplished has been by the most laborious and uphill work, and I wish now I'd never relaxed or looked back - but said at the end of The Great Gatsby: 'I've found my line - from now on this comes first. This is my immediate duty - without this I am nothing.

the sense of futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle.

Professor Dohmler raised himself like a legless man mounting a pair of crutches.

And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

My courage is faith—faith in the eternal resilience of me—that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity

we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther….

we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther…. And one fine morning——

we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

My life, my life has to be like this. It has to keep going up.

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

beating back the tide

So we beat on boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

It was good to be hard, then; all nice people were hard on themselves.

you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

You were brought up to work — not especially to marry. Now you've found your first nut to crack and it's a good nut — go ahead and put whatever happens down to experience. Wound yourself or him — whatever happens it can't spoil you because economically you're a boy, not a girl.

Y así seguimos nuestro camino: botes que reman contra la corriente, incesantemente arrastrados hacia el pasado.

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 one fine morning——

ToScottie March 11, 1939 p. 387- 388 And please do not leave good books half- finished, you spoil them for yourself...Don't be so lavish as to ruin masterpieces for yourself. There are not enough of them!