Quotes About Perseverance

Un plan que promete incontables placeres no puede triunfar; y el desencanto general sólo se conjura con ayuda de algún pequeño disgusto.

We are told to despair of nothing we would attain, as unwearied diligence our point would gain

No cold prudence for me. I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it. The

To such perseverance in willful self-deception Elizabeth would make no reply, and immediately and in silence withdrew; determined, that if he persisted in considering her repeated refusals as flattering encouragement, to apply to her father, whose negative might be uttered in such a manner as must be decisive, and whose behavior at least could not be mistaken for the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female.

No consigo olvidar las locuras y los vicios de otros tan pronto como debiera, ni las ofensas que se me hacen. Mis sentimientos no se modifican cad vez que se intenta influir sobre ellos. Quizá pueda decirse que tiendo al resentimiento. Cuando pierdo mi buena opinión sobre alguien o algo, perdido está para siempre

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it…

Curajul imi creste in timp ce scriu.

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

It taught me to hope,' said he, 'as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

and even you yourself, who do not altogether seem particularly friendly to very severe, very intense application, may perhaps be brought to acknowledge that 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 always good for young people to be put upon exerting themselves; and you know, my dear Catherine, you always were a sad little shatter-brained creature; but now you have been forced to have your wits about you...

If I may, so long as the woman you love lives, and lives for you, all the privilege I claim for my own sex, and it is not a very enviable one - you need not covet it, is that of loving longest when all hope is gone.

Read Above Your Head--"You may perhaps be brought to acknowledge that it is very well 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.

Perfection should not have come quite so soon.

Pentru firea mea, nu pun mana in foc. Este, cred, prea putin ingaduitoare; sigur, prea putin, pentru a conveni celorlalti. Nu pot uita prostiile si pacatele oamenilor atat de repede pe cat ar trebui, si nici ofensele pe care mi le aduc. Nu ma las impresionat de orice incercare ce s-ar face de a ma emotiona. Caracterul meu ar putea fi numit ranchiunos. Buna mea parere o data pierduta, este pierduta pentru vecie.

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. Consider - if reading had not been taught, Mrs. Radcliffe would have written in vain - or perhaps might not have written at all.

Ah, kendi kederleri olmayanlar için ne kadar kolay gayret et demesi!

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere—and

Was sind Männer gegen Felsen und Berge?

Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.

Uno no ama menos un lugar por haber sufrido en él, a menos que todo allí no fuera más que sufrimiento, puro sufrimiento.

Attendance, forbearance, patience with Darcy, was injury to Wickham.

El alma se le fue a los pies y apenas podía sostenerse; pero era obligatoriamente necesario sobreponerse, y luchó con tanta decisión contra la congoja de su espíritu que el éxito fue rápido y, por el momento, completo.

Mrs. Weston was exceedingly disappointed -- much more disappointed, in fact, than her husband, though her dependence on seeing the young man had been so much more sober: but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. It soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.