Quotes About Perseverance

If Jindan wants something badly enough, she can make it happen. She believes this completely.

At what point does forbearance cease to be a virtue and become a weakness?)

But sometimes the only way to healing is through the corridor of pain.

I took the garland for myself, determined to do on my own what no man dared do for me. Remember that, little sister: wait for a man to avenge your honor, and you'll wait forever.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Don't fret,' the bow said. 'You have many journeys in your future, some of which you'll wish you didn't have to undertake. And as for coming from somewhere far away, you, too, have done that.

Once I said to my mother, As long as there's fresh bread in this world, things can't be beyond repair.

You are a daughter of independence, the country's future. Women like you are the ones for whom we fought and died, the ones who will transform India. You must carry the flag forward. You may fall from time to time. We all did. What is important is to get up again.

Write our story, too. For always we've been pushed into corners, trivialized, misunderstood, blamed, forgotten—or maligned and used as cautionary tales.

There will be challenges—which worthwhile endeavor doesn't have them?—but I am prepared. Love will give me strength. Do not worry about me. It will be a grand adventure.

Tunggu seorang laki-laki membalaskan dendam untukmu, dan kau akan menunggu selamanya. -Srikandi

til which fried in its own oil restores lustre when one has lost interest in life. I will be Tilottama, the essence of til, life-giver, restorer of health and hope.

Sometimes—she knows this from her own life—to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I pondered the word endure, what it meant. It didn't mean giving in. It didn't mean being weak or accepting injustice. It meant taking the challenges thrown at us and dealing with them as intelligently as we knew until we grew stronger than them. That was what I'd work on.

Remain true to yourself—and to your heart. Be courageous and remember, even the blackest night must end in dawn.

Yes my Lalita, coming at last into your own, I am praying for you. O spices, o all the forces of the world, do not let her give up. Daughter, the birth passage is always narrow, suffocating. But that first free gulp of air filling the lungs, ah. I pray it for you.

The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.

Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.

He who wants to do more than he is able must admit defeat or retire.

Et nous sommes en grant poverte, S'est riches de nostre deserte Chil pour qui nous nous traveillons. Des nuis grant partie veillons Et les jours tous, pour gaagnier, Qu'il nous manache a mehaigner Des membres quant nous reposons ; Et pour che reposer n'osons.

Remember always that freedom, love, kindness, honour, justice and truth are never to be taken for granted--but worked at, struggled with and fought for, at whatever cost. For it is this that makes us human and builds a bridge to our true nature, which is spirit.

Nigerians are everywhere. There's an old joke, particularly about the Ibos, that when you finally land on Mars, you're going to find a Nigerian there who has a shop that is selling Coca-Cola--who took a speculative trip 20 years ago and has been waiting for everyone else to arrive.

People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that's the problem.