Quotes About Perseverance

As for Porthos, I believe him to be eternal, like God, although less patient.

Rien n'est plus courageux qu'un cœur patient.

Si ha sempre fretta di essere felici, signor Danglars, perchè quando uno ha sofferto a lungo, stenta a credere alla felicità.

My dearest,' said Valentine, 'has the count not just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words – "wait" and "hope"?

All human wisdom is contained in these two words -- 'Wait and hope.

in the shipwreck of life — for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes

It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance. Dantes

We are always in a hurry to be happy, M. Danglars; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune. But

La joie pour les cÅ"urs qui ont longtemps souffert est pareille à la rosée pour la terre desséchée par le soleil: cÅ"ur et terre absorbent cette pluie bienfaisante qui tombe sur eux, et rien n'en apparaît au dehors.

Yes; but one gets out of prison, said Caderousse, who, with what sense was left him, listened eagerly to the conversation, and when one gets out and one's name is Edmond Dantes, one seeks revenge

Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day when God designs to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, - Wait and hope. - Edmond Dantès

So it was that Dantes, during the Hundred Days and after Waterloo, remained under lock and key, forgotten, if not by men, at least by God.

from Phaedrus, I believe, the other from Bias.1 Well, my dear father, in the shipwreck of life – for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes – I throw all my useless baggage in the sea, that's all, and remain with my will, prepared to live entirely alone and consequently entirely free.

Let me struggle like a woman- my strength lies in my weakness. - Milady

Never mind, you know the word must ; with that word one does many things.

all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,—'Wait and hope.'—Your

Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men.

But why be discouraged? It would be asking too much of Providence if you were to expect to succeed at the first attempt.

all human wisdom is summed up in two words? — `Wait and hope.

Then Dantes rose more agile and light than the kid among the myrtles and shrubs of these wild rocks, took his gun in one hand, his pickaxe in the other, and hastened towards the rock on which the marks he had noted terminated. "And now," he exclaimed, remembering the tale of the Arabian fisherman, which Faria had related to him, "now, open sesame!

Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.

I have only two adversaries — I will not say two conquerors, for with perseverance I subdue even them, — they are time and distance. There is a third, and the most terrible — that is my condition as a mortal being.

La dicha es como esos palacios de las islas encantadas, cuyas puertas guardan formidables dragones; preciso es combatir para conquistar