Quotes About Perseverance

The mouse and his child, who had learned so much and had prevailed against such overwhelming odds, never could be persuaded to teach a success course. Popular demand was intense, but they steadfastly refused. The whole secret of the thing, they insisted, was simply and at all costs to move steadily ahead, and that, they said, could not be taught.

He's taken half of our savings,' said his mother. 'If we lived without using the savings before,' said Boaz-Jachin, 'we can live without the half that he has taken.

sharna pax and hed on a poal when the ardship of Cambry come out of his hoal

only my art held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I felt was within me, and so I spared this wretched life.

There's no good in moping girl, there's work to be done... Have you forgotten, nobody likes a person who feels sorry for herself.

Raquela stood at her side. "Your baby was stillborn. But you're all right." The mother screamed, "Even this they deny me! They take away my land. My freedom. Now my baby. Let me die. I want to die.

No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain.

Her failure didn't matter, because at least she'd been true to her impossible dream until the very end.

Le mal de vivre, 'the pain of life.' Qu'll faut bien vivre... 'that we must live with, or endure.' Vaille que vivre, this is difficult but it is something like 'we must live the life we have. We must soldier on.

it's okay to have impossible goals, because if you follow your unreachable star no matter how hopeless or far, your heart will be peaceful when you're dead, even though you might be scorned and covered with scars like I am while you're still alive.

we must keep up our studies even as civilization collapses around us.

It would be a while before Annabelle got back to reading Tidy Magic, but books are patient. We know how urgent and compelling your lives are, and so we bide our time.

I've always thought of writing as the opposite of suicide,' she said. 'That writing was about immortality. Defeating death, or at least forestalling it.

It's okay to have impossible goals, because if you follow your unreachable star no matter how hopeless or far, your heart will be peaceful when you're dead, even though you might be scorned and covered with scars like I am while you're still alive.

Hope can't hurt

we were attempting to snatch hope from the rubble of our broken city. And food was the perfect way to do it.

The celebration had to be postponed: Carol had ovarian cancer. She refused to be gloomy about it.

book, banging in the full stops until it looked as if he would break his pen.

If you can watch the things you gave your life to, broken, and stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools, or make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, and lose, and start again at your beginnings, and never breathe a word about your loss, you'll be a man.

I thought if I were beautiful enough, all my dreams would come true. But you don't steady beautiful forever; one day you wake up and it's gone, and then where are you? Dreams are made with blood and sweat and tears.

Only time can heal wounds as deep as that—a lot of time—and all you can really do is place yourself in its hands and try to consider the passing of each day a victory.

Ponekad je mnogo teže iza?i na kraj s glupoš?u nego sa svesnim zlom.

Most of the advice was along the lines of, "If you persevere in your efforts you will surely succeed," which is bullshit, if you ask me. People who turn to stuff like this have probably already persevered and gotten nowhere.

Ona vrsta usamljenosti u kojoj moraš da se boriš kako bi prihvatio situacju iz korena je druga?ija od one vrste u kojoj znaš da ?eš isplivati samo ako izdržiš.