Quotes About Perseverance

La verdad no es amable. Lo descubrirás muy pronto cuando la vida te vapulee.

There can be a complacency to failure as much as a complacency to success.

Let others argue about that; his only concern was to get to the end of each day. He had become a technique for survival. Below a certain point, that was what all men became: techniques for survival.

Life was the cat that dragged the parrot downstairs by its tail; his head banged against every step.

Alice was surprised. In her worldview, everything was hopeless, but you just had to get on with it. And there wasn't much point changing what you believed at this late stage of the game.

I tried to save her, I failed. I tried to stop her drinking, I failed. I don't blame her, it's way beyond that. And I remember what you told me back then—that she was more likely to get hurt than me. But I can't take it anymore. I can't face another ten days of it, let alone another ten years. So Martha's going to look after her.

You're still in it. You'll always be in it. No, not literally. But in your heart. Nothing ever ends, not if it's gone that deep. You'll always be walking wounded. That's the only choice, after a while. Walking wounded, or dead. Don't you agree?

You still don't get it. You never did, and you never will. So stop even trying.

Loši snovi ne daju ostatku života da ide dalje.

You bet on a relationship, it fails; you go on to the next relationship, it fails too: and maybe what you lose is not two simple minus sums but the multiple of what you staked. That's what it feels like, anyway. Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

Billiards doesn't have to end. A game of billiards could last for ever, even if you were losing all the time. I don't like things to end.

And you do come out of it, that's true. After a year, after five. But you don't come out of it like a train coming out of a tunnel, bursting through the Downs into sunshine and that swift, rattling descent to the Channel; you come out of it as a gull comes out of an oil-slick. You are tarred and feathered for life.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th time.

Success is failing nineteen times and soaring the twentieth.

I strive to get what I want and people have always said I am a monster in that department, but that is always said about us ladies who grasp for our own strength.

It's just a part of her life. Sewing her world back together again, sometimes even daily.

Sometimes, the only way out of the fire is through the fire, m'boy.

She didn't usually mind being just a bit in over her head. She generally flailed like a becalmed ship, irritable and purposeless and panicked, when things were simple.

Oh, I'm bowed, but unbroken.

I will die, however," he said quite seriously, "if you leave me again. Just watch me.

And much like a catapult, my dear, the lower you begin in life, the higher you can eventually fly. All it requires is the right person to, shall we say, effect the launch." -Miss Endicott.

I should not, if I were you, wish to be, because 'sterner stuff' is usually forged by hardship.

she wondered if seeds ever resented the sun, knowing it would shine with no quarter and give them no choice but to push their heads up out of the safety of the hard, hard ground and bloom.

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