Quotes About Perseverance

There are two sorts of people in this world, doers and tryers. You are the latter and I am trying to make you the former.

I don't back out of a long and happy make-believe union just when things start getting rocky

You've got a face longer than a Dickens novel. What's the problem?

Always expect a kick in the teeth," said Millon, "so that when you get a slap in the chops, it seems like a triumph.

death was just a natural part of the cycle of renewal, and that life should be seen not as a two-hundred-hard hurdle with a tape to reach before anyone else, but more like a relay race without end, and only one team.

Sánchez Mazas siempre fue un hombre esquinado, soberbio y despótico...nada permite pensar que no hizo cuanto pudo por ellos (antiguos conocidos). Gracias a su insistencia el Caudillo conmutó por la de cadena perpetua la pena de muerte que pesaba sobre el poeta Miguel Hernández

Without that passion and urge, there is a gradual oozing out of hope and vitality, a settling down on lower levels of existence, a slow merging into non-existence. We become prisoners of the past and some part of its immobility sticks to us.

Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit

Regard every "no" as a "not today" and a step closer to "yes.

When you ask how they are doing, they usually will say, "Great. Never better," which will make you feel like crap. That's just their game face; they are not doing any better than you are. You are the only person you need to please. If you stick with your plan, you will achieve success.

Job hunting is a do-it-yourself activity. There is just no way around it.

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good…Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

Lassan kell járnod. Újra kell tanulnod mindent.

Boy! There are times when I get the feeling that science develops things that are supposed to be good for us, but that just make trouble." Dr. Tresselt's blue eyes seemed to throw out sparks of amusement. "I know how you feel, Joe," he said. "But my stars, boy, nobody can be alive and never have any trouble! Being alive is just meeting troubles every day and overcoming them. Just to stand up straight against the pull of gravity is a fight, isn't it?

through gritted teeth, "is to look through

Panic attacks were like earthquakes. It wasn't a matter of if there would be another one. It was only a question of when it would strike. She had discovered the hard way that it might be weeks, months or even years between attacks. Or it could be tomorrow night.

When it comes to this kind of thing we can all hold out helping hands to each other, doctors can supply some very helpful medications, but in the end, each of us has to have the will to swim to shore on our own. No one can carry another person. Not for long, at any rate.

They also serve who only sit and wait

resist. Six months from now she would have enough saved

Determination was a superpower, but like any power, it could be used for bad ends.

Even though February was the shortest month of the year, sometimes it seemed like the longest.

Le géant, qui souffrait, blessé, De mille morts, de mille peines, Eut un sourire triste et beau ; Et, avant de mourir, regardant le roseau, Lui dit : « Je suis encore un chêne. »

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

Without resistance you can do nothing.