Quotes About Perseverance

Courage, Mademoiselle. There is always something to live for.

Getting soft—that's the curse of the present day.

It's the Only Thing To Do," he said, obviously speaking in capital letters.

for a minute her good-natured blue eyes were hard and sharp; she was the female fighting for existence—"that

Life is very trying.

Real grief is real. It makes you feel awful but it does something to you. I mean, it works it out like perspiration.

Well, well. I know all we medicos hand these things out freely nowadays. Nobody tells young women who can't sleep to count sheep, or get up and eat a biscuit, or write a couple of letters and then go back to bed. Instant remedies, that's what people demand nowadays. Sometimes I think it's a pity we give them to them. You've got to learn to put up with things in life. All very well to stuff a comforter into a baby's mouth to stop it crying. Can't go on doing that all a person's life.

Because people like living, don't they? So do flies. Even if you're old and in pain and can just crawl out in the sun. Julian says those people like living even more than young strong people do. It's harder, he says, for them to die, the struggle's greater. I like living myself—not just being happy and enjoying myself and having a good time. I mean living—waking up and feeling, all over me, that I'm there—ticking over.

My boy, I know what I'm talking about. Mind you, I'm not saying marriage doesn't come hard on a fellow at first. It does. Fellow says to himself, damn it all, he says, I can't call my soul my own! But he gets broken in. It's all discipline." Luke

The true Western spirit of hustle," said Poirot with a smile.

Very difficult, mon ami. But as you know well, difficulties rejoice the heart of Hercule Poirot.

esperaba... esperaba a lo largo de las horas el éxito o el fracaso de un esfuerzo.

If the thing you want beyond anything cannot be, it is much better to recognise it and go forward, instead of dwelling on one's regrets and hopes.

Never give in! That's my motto. Don't think of trouble and trouble won't come!

I've got a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise. A beastly thing, compromise, but it steals upon you as you near middle age.

When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope.

move, hoping to save itself by its immobility.

There's always a way out," said Anthony gloomily. "I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise

tell you, Hastings. This is all very black—very black." "Always darkest before dawn," I said reassuringly.

Father persevered for a little longer but soon decided that conversation with General Radley was practically impossible and almost certainly unprofitable.

One must take the downs with the ups, my friend.

There is always, of course, that terrible three weeks, or a month, which you have to get through when you are trying to get started on a book. There is no agony like it. You sit in a room, biting pencils, looking at a typewriter, walking about, or casting yourself down on a sofa, feeling you want to cry your head off . . . .

Ah! Have I got to tell you thirty-six times, and then again thirty-six, that there is no need of physical effort? One needs only-to think.

I hoped for the best,' said Miss Marple. 'One cannot go through life without attracting certain risks if they are necessary.