Quotes About Perseverance

tirar para arriba

tirar para arriba, which literally means "to toss upward," but which is most often translated as "to overcome adversity.

That's the way mining is. You always find a way to cheat fate," he says. "That's what's beautiful about being a miner: Supernatural things always happen." Now

overcoming obstacles [tirando para arriba

I think that sometimes the only thing that can make you laugh is accepting the idea that there's no way out.

it felt like a hand had punched through the rock and reached out to us.

Me too, I make do, I anoint what cannot be fixed.

You can go on losing after loss.

An old cardboard box: you think it but you don't say it. Leftovers, that are swept up and glued together. I am your alipte , I say, I am your personal trainer and masseuse. I oil you. But there's no ointment against the bad thoughts and phantasms.

So little by little I climb towards life, in the straitjacket of my prison. I don't waste an ounce of air or sun. I explore I bring to light.

My soul does everything it can to repair the irreparable.

When I was five years old I fell head downward into an empty cistern and was not found until six hours later, at which time I was quietly eating dirt. The year after that I fell out of a neighbor's barn loft. These experiences constitute an adequate preparation for a career in journalism — the equivalent of four years in college

Sometimes getting a job is harder than the job after you get it—and sometimes getting out of a job is harder than either!

To such as these we offer, with some confidence, and with no little sympathy, our collection of choice flowers, culled from the gardens of Poesy: may they refresh the mind, and gladden the heart, and beautify the path, of many a careworn toiler in the fields of labour, of whatsoever kind.

Courage ought to have eyes as well as arms.

He preacheth patience that never knew pain.

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

Strength is the outcome of need.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel.

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.