Quotes About Perseverance

Oh well," said Miss Marple, "it's just perseverance, isn't it, that leads to things.

Poirot said gravely: "He is not very rapid, the good Battle. He gets there slowly, but he does get there in the end, madame.

if you're born on the wrong side of the wall, I can't see that it's wrong to climb over it.

It is hard when you are twenty-four years of age, and your one ambition in life is to reduce your handicap at golf, to be forced to give time and attention to the problem of earning your living.

I think, Madame, that your strength is in your will—not in your arm.

Writing's not particularly enjoyable. It's hard work like everything else.

Ik bewonderde Elsa Greer omdat ze durf had, omdat ze vechten kon, omdat ze standhield tegen haar kwelgeesten en zich nooit liet intimideren! Maar Caroline Crale bewonderde ik omdat ze niet vocht, omdat ze zich terug trok in haar wereld van getemperd licht en halftinten. Men heeft haar nooit kunnen verslaan, omdat ze ook nooit gestreden heeft.

And you must remember that anyone who's mentally unhinged has a good deal of unsuspected strength.

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

I am become a hard, thankless, graceless girl, and it was the only way I could do it.

And some look through a broken spyglass onto the horizon in search for gold

At the end of the day everybody is doing what they can to get by

Desperate times calls for more than simply desperate measures. It calls for putting one's values aside till the desperation subsides" --Mental Hell, Chapter 3

One can't get upset at the dying fields when he is constantly warring with the rain clouds

You can kill the poet but never his rhyme

Arday kastaa waa inuu laba mid uun doortaa, xanuunka edbinta nafta, ama xanuunka qoomamaynta wakhtiyadii uu daayacay.

Being a student is like someone behind the bars, only those who burn the midnight oil will get the certificate of freedom.

Ceeb maaha inad imtixaan dhacdo, balse waxa ceeb ah ku qanaca caadeysiga dhicitaanka joogtada ah.

Ha ka baqin inaad ku guul dareysato imtixaanada, ka cabso inaad mar walba markhaati u noqoto guusha ardayda kale.

Ha ka noqon goobaha waxbarashada macmiil joogto ah! Noqo mid ka midho dhaliya hadafka ardaynimo.

La dagaalanka rabitaanka naftu, waa furaha guusha ardayga.

Trees make me believe that we can also renew and reshape our lives, no matter what we face life.

You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope. -from Postcards from No Man's Land

C'était un très bon nègre. [...] Et on lui jetait des pierres, des bouts de ferraille, des tessons de bouteille, mais ni ces pierres, ni cette ferraille, ni ces bouteilles… Ô quiètes années de Dieu sur cette motte terraquée ! [...] Et le fouet disputa au bombillement des mouches la rosée sucrée de nos plaies [...] (...) Embrasse-moi jusqu'au nous furieux Embrasse, embrasse NOUS