Quotes About Perseverance

We're going to be busy.

We don't say cannot here at Shadowfell,' Tali put in firmly, silencing him. 'And we don't say impossible.

The legionary spirit is that fire of one who will choose the hardest road, who will fight to the death even when all is already lost.

Its hardness and solidity had been an odd kind of comfort. Do not wish for anything. Be and endure. The Old African had learned that enduring was power too, and just as he had been drawn to the boulder, so the slaves, after a while, were drawn to him.

And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet company will sing and sing back into the mountains and if necessary even under the sea: we are the ones we have been waiting for.

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

I am the history of battery assault and limitless armies against whatever I want to do with my mind and my body and my soul

love without being destroyed...

Apesar de sua vida ter sido de sofrimento e angústia, suas histórias nunca foram insuportáveis nem deprimentes. Tinham alicerces numa força moral que era o tempo todo alentadora.

The old man, who shuffled along with great difficulty, bent double, was blind. To attract the attention of passersby,he sang a heart wrenching tune. Every time my father heard the song, he said to himself that society must change.

Cixi's style was not to force through drastic change, but to bring it about gradually through perseverence.

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.

Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.

That's life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it's nothing. If you ask me I don't think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That's enough.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

The world is full of whiners. But the fact is, nothing comes with a guarantee. They say as soon as you're born, you're dying, and everything in between is a struggle just to stay sane. And once you're out here in the wide-open world... you're on your own.

Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.

Rather than run aimlessly away, it would be best, I suppose, to face the situation squarely and get used to it once and for all.

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

Patience itself was not necessarily defeat. Rather defeat really began when patience was thought to be defeat

Cuando los campesinos compran más tierra con el fruto de su trabajo, eso significa que tienen que trabajar más que antes. A fin de cuentas, las preocupaciones y el trabajo no tienen fin, y lo único que obtienen es la posibilidad de tener más quehacer que antes…

Lo invadió una tristeza como la luz del alba... Bien podían lamerse mutuamente las heridas. Pero, de persistir en las heridas que no se cierran nunca, terminarían por quedarse sin lengua.

Pentru un b?rbat munca pare s? fie ceva esen?ial, care-l ajut? s?-ndure scurgerea f?r? ?int? a timpului.