Quotes About Perseverance

Siegfried once told me he had spent half a morning trying to stuff a uterus up a cow's rectum. What really worried him, he said, was that he nearly succeeded)

need nerves of steel to be a parent.

onto a heap, making a churned brown trail across the whiteness. 'Now then,' he muttered along the side of a half-smoked cigarette. He was over seventy but still ran the smallholding single-handed. He told me once that he had worked as a farm hand for six shillings a day for thirty years, yet still managed

There have been times in my life when, confronted by black and hopeless circumstances, I have discovered in myself undreamed-of resources of courage and resolution.

without warning, the thermometer disappeared from my fingers. Some sudden suction had drawn it inside the cow. I ran my fingers round just inside the rectum—nothing; I pushed my hand inside without success; with a feeling of rising panic I rolled up my sleeve and groped about in vain.

Often, too, they would slip half a

It was still quite early in the morning and perhaps I wasn't feeling quite strong enough to have the evidence of my failure thrust before my eyes.

Finally they got me in, half lying across the back seat. My face was pressed against the side window and from the outside it must have been a grotesque sight with the nose squashed sideways and a solitary dead-mackerel eye staring sightlessly into the night.

he was doomed, like millions, to flee from wisdom and be a hero.

People would say, I suppose, that he came through without a scratch. But the scratches were there—on the inside.

Don't wait for the right moment to start. "Don't wait for things to happen. And do not fear failure but rather fear of not trying.

No matter what we've experienced in life, no matter what kind of trauma we've been through, no matter what bad decisions we've made, we survive, believing there are better days waiting for us.

love life, love it even when you have no stomach for it.

There comes a time in your life when everything goes to hell. "At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.

Never miss out on a good day that could make your life great. Just because it's a little difficult. The good days are never easy, But worth it.

The thing about marriage is, you end up marrying the one you don't understand. Then you spend the rest of your life trying to.

When we take risks, we learn that there will be times when we succeed and there will be times when we fail, and "If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

When we take risks, we learn that there will be times when we succeed and "If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and loss, in order to discover ourselves. Because out of suffering comes the strongest souls.

Don't go back to less just because you are too impatient to wait for better.

life is what you make it. You're going to mess up sometimes. lovers, well, they'll come and go too. Some of them are going to break your heart. But you can't give up. Because you've got to believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will.

There comes a time in your life when the world is spinning out of control." Have faith in yourself, and never lose hope. Believe in you.

It's in the toughest moments that you learn the most about yourself.

If standing up for yourself burns a bridge. I have matches. We ride at dawn.