Quotes About Perseverance

Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.

He that is uneasy at every little pain is never without some ache.

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.

No man e'er was glorious, who was not laborious.

Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails.

Hard work is rewarding beyond gold. Sweating is living.

Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

It is while you are patiently toiling at little tasks that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn upon you.

Life is short and full of blisters.

Despite our fears and worries, and they are very real to all of us, life continues — it goes on. In these three words I can sum up everything I have learned in my 80 years about life — it goes on.

Life. — Enjoy whatever flowers come with the manure.

Life is a battlefield of broken dreams and pieced-together victories.

Life: that narrow space between a rock and a hard place.

Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like.

When everything doesn't go perfectly as hoped, it isn't tragedy — it's life.

Keep your flame lit, and you will never feel darkness.

Don't spend too much of your life avoiding the sharp edges of shattered dreams.

Meanwhile I am consoling myself for your absence by finding my advantage in it — shining like Hesperus when Hyperion has departed... I never held it my forte to be a severe reasoner, but I can see that if whatever is best is A, and B happens to be best, B must be A, however little you might have expected it beforehand.

No one will dispute me when I say that the only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

You are going to be fine — you come from a long line of lunatics.

Well! well! It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose. But it's hard. Hard.

We go all wrong, by too strenuous a resolution to go all right.

The doubt, like the mosquito, buzzes round my faith.

Mozart composed music of radiant vivacity, sparkle, and wit at times when he was crushed by neglect, debt, and the awful discouragement of living his whole life insufficiently compensated and recognized.