Quotes About Perseverance

Pedras no caminho? Eu guardo todas. Um dia vou construir um castelo.

Ho avuto grandi ambizioni e sogni turgidi - ma i sogni li hanno avuti anche il garzone e la sartina, perché tutti sognano. Quello che distingue le persone le une dalle altre è la forza di farcela, o di lasciare che sia il destino a farla a noi.

The only way to survive in this world is by keeping alive our dream, without ever fulfilling it, since the fulfilment never measures up to what we imagine.

Agir, eis a inteligência verdadeira. Serei o que quiser. Mas tenho que querer o que for. O êxito está em ter êxito, e não em ter condições de êxito. Condições de palácio tem qualquer terra larga, mas onde estará o palácio se o não fizerem ali?

It all comes down to trying to experience tedium in a way that does not hurt.

I'll always be the one who waited for a door to open in a wall without doors

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How little hope ever attains! – Fernando Pessoa, from "The Scaffold," A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics, 2006)

The truly wise man is the one who can keep external events from changing him in any way. To do this, he covers himself with an armour of realities closer to him than the world's facts and through which the facts, modified accordingly, reach him. 98.

Tudo se me tornou insuportável, exceto a vida

I had great ambitions and extravagant dreams, but so did the errand boy and the seamstress, for everyone has dreams; the only difference is whether or not we have the strength to fulfil them or a destiny that will fulfil them through us.

Hacer, he ahí la inteligencia verdadera. Seré lo que quiera. Pero tengo que querer lo que sea. El éxito está en tener éxito, y no en tener condiciones para el éxito.

Thus we represent a painful version of the argonauts' bold motto: the journey is what matters, not life.

De enige houding die een superieur mens past, is koppig doorgaan met iets waarvan hij inziet dat het geen zin heeft, zichzelf onderwerpen aan een discipline waarvan hij weet dat ze vruchteloos is, en steevast filosofische en metafysische normen hanteren waarvan hij aanvoelt dat ze geen betekenis hebben.

Conformarse es someterse y vencer es conformarse, ser vencido. Por eso cualquier victoria es una grosería. Los vencedores pierden siempre todas las cualidades de desaliento con el presente que los llevaron a la lucha que les dio la victoria.

Whenever my ambition, influenced by my dreams, raised up above the everyday level of my life, so that for a moment I seemed to soar, like a child on a swing, I always – like the child – had to come down to the public garden and face my defeat, with no flags to wave in battle and no sword I was strong enough to unsheath.

I begin because I don't have the strength to think; I finish because I don't have the courage to quit. This book is my cowardice.

I accept injustice as I accept a stone not being round

Every day I'm mistreated by Matter.

To move is to live, to express oneself is to endure.

El mundo es para quien nace para conquistarlo y no para quien sueña que puede conquistarlo, aunque tenga razón.

We achieve nothing. Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, 'Look at me move.

Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I'll build a castle.

Like happiness, the day was taking a long time to arrive, and at that hour, it felt as if it never would.