Quotes About Perseverance

If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it…

The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.

She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.

Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

the world is hard on ambitious girls

for action is always easier than quiet waiting.

I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copy-books; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end, he said, dolefully.

and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end.

There, I've done my best. If that wont do, I shall have to wait till I can do better.

But, you see, Jo wasn't a heroine, she was only a struggling human girl like hundreds of others, and she just acted out her nature, being sad, cross, listless, or energetic, as the mood suggested. It's highly virtuous to say we'll be good, but we can't do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together before some of us even get our feet set in the right way.

There is always light behind the clouds

Jo valued the letter more than the money, because it was encouraging, and after years of effort it was so pleasant to find that she had learned to do something…

I will make a battering-ram of my head and make a way through this rough-and-tumble world.

I make so many beginnings there never will be an end

Then let me advise you to take up your little burdens again, for though they seem heavy sometimes, they are good for us, and lighten as we learn to carry them. Work is wholesome, and there is plenty for everyone. It keeps us from ennui and mischief, is good for health and spirits, and gives us a sense of power and independence better than money or fashion. We'll

trying to extinguish the brilliant hopes that blazed up a word of encouragement.

We all have our temptations, some far greater than yours, and it often takes us all our lives to conquer them.

tras las nubes siempre llega la luz.

For love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.