Quotes About Perseverance

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't get a handful of mud either.

When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....

What are we at the park for except to win? I'd trip my mother. I'd help her up, brusher her off, tell her I'm sorry. But mother don't make it to third.

It is by conquering temptation that we acquire merit before God. It is through temptation, met and defeated, that we grow in holiness. There would be little credit in being good if it were easy to be good. The great saints were not men and women who had no temptations; in most cases, they were men and women who had tremendous temptations—and became saints by their victories. We shall not,

The bloody-minded resilience with which they responded to disasters, especially those of their own making, their determination to liberate their territories no matter what, had been my first glimpse of what would one day be known as the Spirit of Resistance.

You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that.

For it's human nature even in the direst extremity to see a spark of hope and blow it into flames.

There wasn't a stick over which he didn't stumble, and if he had bread he wouldn't have a knife, and if he had both bread and a knife he wouldn't be able to find the salt. His

For some not to be martyrs is martyrdom indeed.

Jewish dropout: a boy who didn't get his Ph.D. —ANON

The Talmud expresses this lovely thought: "God found the Jews as one finds grapes in the desert.

A Bulgarian proverb goes: "When you baptize a Jew, hold him underwater for five minutes.

The twelfth-century poet Abraham ibn Ezra, whom you encountered in high school as Browning's Rabbi ben Ezra (may his tribe increase), limpidly described the shlimazl's lot when he wrote: If I sold lamps, The sun, In spite, Would shine at night.

Mr. Abraham, driven to desperation by the endless delays of the tailor who was making him a pair of trousers, finally cried, "Tailor, in the name of Heaven, it has already taken you six weeks!" "So?" "So, you ask? Six weeks for a pair of pants? Reboyne Shel Oylem! It took God only six days to create the universe!" "Nu," shrugged the tailor, "look at it….

Tuhan memberi hari, dan Tuhan memberi kekuatan. Dan hari serta kekuatan itu diabdikan pada kerja, dan dalam kerja itu sendiri terdapat berkat. (Anna Karenina vol. 1)

But now everything will be different. It is nonsense to believe that life will not allow it, that the past will not allow it. I must struggle to live a better life, a far better life.

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of ones flesh in the ink-pot each time one dips one's pen.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

Life did not stop, and one had to live.