Quotes About Perseverance

I can do the one hundred things beyond the next thing, but I stub my toe on that

Our specialty is stories about little girls who break their spines and get adopted by grouchy old men because they smile so much. You'd think we were a race of cheerful cripples and that the common end of the Russian peasant was suicide— Six

O Gatsby acreditava na luz verde, no orgíaco futuro que, ano após ano, foge e recua diante de nós. Se hoje nos iludiu, pouco importa: amanhã correremos mais depressa, alongaremos mais os braços...Até que uma bela manhã... Assim vamos teimando, proas contra a corrente, incessantemente cortando as águas, a caminho do passado.

Courage—just that; courage as a rule of life, and something to cling to always.

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. A sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.

Et nous luttons ainsi, barques à contre-courant, refoulés sans fin vers notre passé.

I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

Gatsby, he had a grand vision for his life since he was a boy. No amount of fire could ever challenge the fairy tale he had stored up in his heart

So we beat on, boats against the current.

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

Remember, if people talk about you behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead of them.

a heart can be broken, but it keep on beating, just the same.

she had learned that being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

Don't give up before the miracle happens.

He had been told that in America, if you worked hard, anything was possible.

It was the story of her life and probably how she had survived this long: with a little talent and a lot of flair.

She was too hurt to cry….You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

Remember, if people talk behind your back, it only that you are two steps ahead of them.

A heart can be broken but it keeps on beating just the same ~ Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

she had learned that being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome. And

months was ten years.

He had done it all, from barnstorming to crop dusting, and had even flown a Davis Waco with the Baby Ruth Flying Circus.

You save up all your energy for the big push--when you need it. And when you're up there, concentrate. Remain calm and steady as she goes. Don't look right, don't look left, don't let yourself get rattled, just stay the course, nice and easy all the way.

The more you want the more you suffer. If you want everything you must suffer everything.