Quotes About Perseverance

Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Maybe it's that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.

And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.

You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.

Time did not compose her.

If he does not come to me, then ,' said she, 'I shall give him up for ever.

We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.

Time, time will heal the wound.

There is a fine old saying, which everybody here is of course familiar with: 'Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.

Keep your breath to cool your porridge'; and I shall keep mine to swell my song.

We women love longest even when all hope is gone.

I can always live by my pen.

Neither the dissipations of the past--and she had lived very much in the world, nor the restrictions of the present; neither sickness nor sorrow seemed to have closed her heart or ruined her spirits.

Let those who want to be happy ... be firm

All the privilege I claim for my own sex, is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

Well, well, said he, do not make yourself unhappy. If you are a good girl for the next ten years, I will take you to a review at the end of them.

no hay que desesperar de lograr aquello que deseamos, pues la asiduidad, si es constante, consigue el fin que se propone...

Would Mr. Darcy then consider the rashness of your original intention as atoned for by your obstinacy in adhering to it?

it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

it is very worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

One had rather, on such occasions, do too much than too little.

Her mind was quite determined and varied not.