Quotes About Perseverance

All of these years of my service towards mankind did not bring me nothing but assaults and humiliations.

All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle." –

I'm glad," Tesla quipped, "that I am living in a place in which, though they can roast me in the papers, they cannot burn me at the stake.

My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made

Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.

When you've made up your mind, no use lagging behind, go ahead and no relenting, Let your youth have free reign, it won't come again, so be bold and no repenting.

The canary began to sing again. The sun had struck it, and its throat and tiny breast had filled with song. Francis gazed at it for a long time, not speaking, his mouth hanging half opened, his eyes dimmed with tears. The canary is like man's soul, he whispered finally. It sees bars round it, but instead if despairing, it sings. It sings, and wait and see, Brother Leo: one day its song shall break the bars.

I an not tired, but the night is coming.

Man hurries, God does not. That is why man's works are uncertain and maimed, while God's are flawless and sure. My eyes welling with tears, I vowed never to transgress this eternal law again. Like a tree I would be blasted by wind, struck by sun and rain, and would wait with confidence; the long-desired hour of flowering and fruit would come.

Overdraw me Lord, and who cares if I break!

in order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

The longer I live, the more I rebel. I'm not going to give in; I want to conquer the world!

Gradually I began to understand that it does not matter very much what problem, whether big or small, is tormenting us; the only thing that matters it that we be tormented, that we find a ground for being tormented. In other words, that we exercise our minds in order to keep certainty from turning us into idiots, that we fight to open every closed door we find in front of us.

You cannot understand how much patience I need in order not to lose my patience, so that I can withstand all this misfortune all by myself. Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Galatea Kazantzaki wr. c. June 1922

If they were to ask me what road leads to heaven, I would answer them: the most difficult!

Life is trouble. Death – no. To live – do you know what that means? To undo your belt and look for trouble!

S? m? ierÈ›i, st?pâne, eu mi-s cam din topor; vorbele-mi strepezesc dinÈ›ii, se lipesc de ei ca noroiul de picioare ; nu pot s? turui È™i s? spun baliverne, nu pot È™i pace; da' tu m?-nÈ›elegi, nu-i aÈ™a?

Die every day. Be born every day. Deny everything you have every day. The superior virtue is not to be free but to fight for freedom.

Dur?, aspr? mai e, se pare, clima pe p?mântul ?sta, iar seminÈ›ele cele mai de preÈ› nu încolÈ›esc sau sunt în?buÈ™ite de salvie È™i urzici.

Nu È™tiam, trebuie s? recunosc. ?tiam bine doar ce s-ar pr?buÈ™i; habar n-aveam însp de ce se va în?lÈ›a pe ruine.

Când toate merg anapoda, ce bucurie s? ne punem sufletul la încercare dac? are rezisten?? È™i valoreaz? ceva!

Conquer the last, the greatest temptation of all: Hope. This is the third duty.

Sa??r?n, istediÄŸin kadar kap?s?n? çal.

Und das Licht hat geschworen, nicht aufzugeben, aber es weiß, das es keine Rettung gibt, es wird sich nicht ergeben, es erlischt.