logo

Quotes About Perseverance

we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars
~ Oscar Wilde
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
~ Oscar Wilde
Echan a perder todas las historias de amor intentando que duren para siempre.
~ Oscar Wilde
Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
~ Oscar Wilde
One cannot always keep an adder in one's breast to feed one, nor rise up every night to sow thorns in the garden of one's soul.
~ Oscar Wilde
Thou knowest all; I seek in vain What lands to till or sow with seed - The land is black with briar and weed, Nor cares for falling tears or rain. Thou knowest all; I sit and wait With blinded eyes and hands that fail, Till the last lifting of the veil And the first opening of the gate. Thou knowest all; I cannot see. I trust I shall not live in vain, I know that we shall meet again In some divine eternity.
~ Oscar Wilde
Saat üçü vurdu, dördü vurdu, dört buçuÄŸu vurdu ama o yerinden k?m?ldamad?. Hayat?n örgüsü içindeki parlak renkli lifleri bir araya toplamaya, onlarla bir örüntü dokumaya çal???yordu; içinde dolaÅŸt???, tutkunun kan rengi labirentinde yolunu bulmaya çal???yordu.
~ Oscar Wilde
There is much more before me. I have hills far steeper to climb, valleys much darker to pass through. And I have to get it all out of myself. Neither religion, morality, nor reason can help me at all.
~ Oscar Wilde
Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men.
~ Oscar Wilde
nothing is worth doing except what the world says is impossible.
~ Oscar Wilde
Art persists, it timelessly continues.
~ Oscar Wilde
MRS ARBUTHNOT For me the world is shriveled to a palm's breath, and where I walk there are thorns. HESTER It shall not be so. We shall somewhere find green valleys and fresh waters, and if we weep, well, we shall weep together.
~ Oscar Wilde
They have been through the fire, and what fire does not destroy, it hardens. She has had experiences.
~ Oscar Wilde
Ehrgeiz ist die letzte Zuflucht des Versagers
~ Oscar Wilde
What fire does not destroy, it hardens.
~ Oscar Wilde
Suffering is one very long moment.
~ Oscar Wilde
Si no tarda usted mucho, le esperaré aquí toda la vida.
~ Oscar Wilde
We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honorable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man.
~ Oswald Spengler
However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile.
~ Ousmane Sembene
Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.
~ Ovid
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
~ Ovid
By yielding you may obtain victory
~ Ovid
What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.
~ Ovid
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
~ Ovid