Quotes About Perseverance

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.

thirst is harder to bear than hunger, heat, or cold.

So every day is a battle, and I'm so tired I don't want to live; only it's cowardly to die till you have done something.

Women who dare are few, the women who would stand and wait are many.

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it. - Louisa May Alcott

Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace. Hope and keep busy, and whatever happens, remember that you never can be fatherless.

Tom sat scowling over a pile of dilapidated books with his hand in his hair, as if his head was in danger of flying asunder with the tremendous effort he was making.

Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and sad and dreary.

I thought it was only a habit, easy to drop when I liked: But it is stronger than I; and sometimes I feel as if possessed of a devil that will get the better of me, try as I may

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

Not until months afterwards did Jo understand how she had the strength of mind to hold fast to the resolution she had made when she decided she did not love her boy, and never could. It was very hard to do, but she did it, knowing the delay was both useless and cruel.

Life is a fight, and I like a good soldier.

That's just why, because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a common-place dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

Yes, I remember, but the life I wanted then seems selfish, lonely, and cold to me now. I haven't given up the hope that may write a good book yet, but I can wait, and I'm sure it will be the better for such experiences and illustrations as these

Very tough, but it is that very struggle with obstacles which does us good. Things have been made easy for you in many ways, but no one can do everything. You must paddle your own canoe now, and learn to avoid the rapids and steer straight to the port you want to reach. I don't know just what your temptations will be for you have no bad habits and seem to love music so well, nothing can lure you from it. I only hope you won't work too hard.

It's my dreadful temper! I try to cure it, I think I have, and then it breaks out worse than ever. Oh, mother, what shall I do? What shall I do?" "Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.

Louisa May Alcott

Poor Jo tried desperately to be good, but her bosom enemy was always ready to flame up and defeat her, and it took years of patient effort to subdue it.

There are a good many hard times in this life of ours, but we can always bear them if we ask help n the right way.

I found the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

En toda vida, hay dias de lluvia, dias obscuros y dias tristes y grises

Talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.

I am glad a task to me is given, To labor at day by day, For it brings me health and strength and hope, And I cheerfully learn to say, "Head, you may think, Heart, you may feel, But, Hand, you shall work alway!

Antes de morir espero hacer algo importante, algo heroico o maravilloso, que me permita seguir viva en el recuerdo. No sé qué es, pero no pararé hasta descubrirlo y, algún día, os asombraré a todas.