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Quotes About Perseverance

Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena
~ Paulo Coelho
The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight.
~ Paulo Coelho
It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.
~ Paulo Coelho
you only know yourself when you go beyond your limits
~ Paulo Coelho
Sorrows do not last forever when we are journeying towards the thing we have always wanted.
~ Paulo Coelho
Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.
~ Paulo Coelho
You might have lost some major battles, but you survived and you're still here.
~ Paulo Coelho
The roller-coaster is my life; life is a fast, dizzying game; life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances, falling over and getting up again; it's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and feeling angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it
~ Paulo Coelho
The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.
~ Paulo Coelho
Although I have been through all that I have, I do not regret the many hardships I met, because it was they who brought me to the place I wished to reach.
~ Paulo Coelho
We don't always choose the best solution but we carry on regardless, trying to remain upright and decent in order to do honor not to the walls or the doors or the windows but to the empty space inside, the space where we worship and venerate what is dearest and most important to us.
~ Paulo Coelho
Because we managed to keep our heart open, despite the pain. Because we realized that the person who left us did not take the sun with them or leave darkness in their place.
~ Paulo Coelho
Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested. The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.
~ Paulo Coelho
We always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time,those resources are locked up in the depths of our heart and we waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them.By the time we've found them,we already been defeated by adversity.
~ Paulo Coelho
Everything will happen as was written by the Lord, replied the prophet. There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason. What reason? That is a question we cannot answer before, or even during the trials. Only when we have overcome them do we understand why they were there.
~ Paulo Coelho
There are some things in life that are worth fighting for to the end.
~ Paulo Coelho
When everything seems to be going well and your dream is almost within your gasp, that is when you must be more alert than ever.
~ Paulo Coelho
Going after a dream has a price. It may mean abandoning our habits, it may make us go through hardships, or it may lead us to disappointment, et cetera. But however costly it may be, it is never as high as the price paid by people who didn't live. Because one day they will look back and hear their own heart say: 'I wasted my life.' " He is not making things any easier. Let's suppose
~ Paulo Coelho
I am my own best friend and my own worst enemy. Before coming here, I was thinking I don't deserve it, that i wouldn't be able to meet your expectations, and that you had probably chosen the wrong candidate. At the same time, my heart was telling me that i was being rewarded because i hadn't given up and had fought to the end
~ Paulo Coelho
If you want to achieve your objectives, you have to be prepared for a daily dose of pain or discomfort. At first, it's unpleasant and demotivating, but in time you come to realise that it's part of the process of feeling good, and the moment arrives when, if you don't feel pain, you have a sense that the exercises aren't having the desired effect.
~ Paulo Coelho
You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.
~ Paulo Coelho
Al atravesar un periodo difícil, recuerda: aunque hayas perdido grandes batallas, sobreviviste y estás ahí.
~ Paulo Coelho
Before I die, I want to fight for life.
~ Paulo Coelho
Not even your love could withhold you from fulfilling your own personal legend.
~ Paulo Coelho