Quotes About Perseverance

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.

Every church, yea, every truth and every good cause, has its martyrs, who stood the fiery trial and sacrificed comfort and life itself to their sacred convictions. The blood of martyrs is the seed of toleration; toleration is the seed of liberty; and liberty is the most precious gift of God to every man who has been made in his image and redeemed by Christ.

Thus, with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite: Fool! said my muse to me, look in thy heart, and write.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

One thing I knew about the novelist's task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank page. The blank page is the void, the absence of sense and feeling, the white light of literary death.

Problems are there to be solved. How dull life would be without them.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in," Abraham Lincoln

Then came the waiting, a test of patience for even the tenured.

We must continue up the steps because the path is right, and the process of climbing is all that matters.

When there's no escaping the heat of the cold, the only way to combat it is to accept it.

By this time, I had become fond of the story that nobody wanted. I revised it again and had 200 twenty-four-page pamphlets printed at my own expense. I sent these out as Christmas cards for Christmas, 1943.

Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

Fidelity in marriage requires self-will and self-denial.

Simple doesn't have to mean easy.

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.

Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.

The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.

You get used to everything, even the defection of those you thought you were bound to forever.

Cette chambre est un navire. Un navire à bord duquel nous naviguons, sur des mers calmes ou déchainées, à la recherche de rivages paisibles ou accidentés. Il y a des soleils impressionnants et puis des cours de sirocco. Il y a des étendues d'eau à perte de vue et puis, brusquement, la côté. Il y a ce roulis incessant, qui nous berce ou nous secoue, qui nous accompagne toujours. Nous sommes des marins égarés, à bord d'un bateau ivre.

Qu'est-ce que donc que la vie humaine si ce n'est un collier de blessures que l'on porte autour de son cou? A quoi sert d'aller ainsi dans les jours, les mois, les années, toujours plus faible, toujours meurtri?