Quotes About Perseverance

Art?k etraflar?na bakmaya, aramaya baÅŸlad?lar; güçleri hep, bulunmaktan ibaret olan bu k?zlar.

Life is right, in any case.

Summer might come after. It does come. But it comes only to the patient ones, who are there as if eternity lay in front of them.

You are not too old And it is not too late . . .

But difficult things are what we were set to do, almost everything serious is difficult, and everything is serious.

Where things become truly difficult and unbearable, we find ourselves in a place already very close to its transformation.

Losing is also ours; and even forgetting/ has a shape in the permanent realm of mutation./ Things we've let go of circle; and though we are rarely a center/ of these circles: they trace around us the unbroken figure.

Between hammers pounding, the heart exists, like the tongue between the teeth—which still, however, does the praising.

One must never despair upon losing something, whether it's an individual or an experience of joy or happiness; everything returns even more magnificently. (Letters on Life)

It's possible I am pushing through solid rock in flintlike layers, as the ore lies, alone; I am such a long way in I see no way through, and no space: everything is close to my face, and everything close to my face is stone.

All it takes to get along in this here man's town is a little shit, grit, and mother-wit.

They can laugh, but they can't deny us. They can curse and kill us, but they can't destroy us. This land is ours because we come out of it, we bled in it, our tears watered it, we fertilized it with our dead. So the more of us they destroy, the more it becomes filled with the spirit of our redemption.

Nothing ever stops; it divides and multiplies, and I guess sometimes it gets ground down superfine, but it doesn't just blow away.

Nothing, storm or flood, must get in the way of our need for light and ever more and brighter light. The truth is the light and light is the truth.

But live you must, and you can either make passive love to your sickness or burn it out and go on to the next conflicting phase.

And in order for the Negro to fulfill his duty as a citizen it was often necessary that he fight for his self-affirmed right to fight.

Ride 'em, cowboy. Give 'em hell and bananas.

After such knowledge, and given the persistence of racial violence and the unavailability of legal protection, I asked myself, what else was there to sustain our will to persevere but laughter?

What did I do To be so black And blue?

Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open.

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in the face of certain defeat

But live you must, and you can either make passive love to your sickness or burn it out and go on to the next conflicting phase. ? Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man . (Vintage International; 2nd edition March 14, 1995) Originally published 1952.

Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open." They thought the old man had gone out of his mind. He had been the meekest of men. The younger children were rushed from the

Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust right open.