Quotes About Perseverance

I'm not as good as I once was, but I am as good once as I ever was.

Time to grow up. Time to stop bawling. Time to do SOMETHING. And that means, if I'm not sleeping, my nerd-herd isn't sleeping either-sun or no sun.

Apunta a la Luna y, si fallas, al menos estarás entre las estrellas.

Because Library School will take up two whole years of my life, I have decided to keep a journal of events/feelings/reactions to it as long as I can stick it out. Judging from today, that might not be too long, but I will start with a reaction to yesterday so it will not be forgotten.

Life is stronger than death.

If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.

Throw eggs at a rock, and though one uses all the eggs in the world, the rock remains the same.

If a superior man undertakes something and tried to lead, He goes astray. But if he follows, he finds guidance. It is favourable to find friends in the West and South, and quiet perseverance brings good fortune.

if one can surmount poverty and can love in moderation, there is no obstacle to happiness for anyone.

Well, and every man has his troubles and I must make shift to live with mine as I can

The old deep sadness of life lay in the bottom of her heart and she knew it was there, but she would not allow herself to sink into it. Out of the dark and sullen bottom of a lake the lotus flowers bloomed upon its surface, and she would pluck the flowers.

Ah well, Liang was her husband and she would never have another. Even had she been young and beautiful she would not have run from man to man as women did nowadays. But she was neither young nor beautiful and she was grateful for Liang. It was honorable to be his wife, and if he had a peevish temper at home, he might have been worse. He had never beaten her, and she had learned, after all these years, how to torture him.

But she would not be hastened. Words were to her things to be caught one by one and released with difficulty.

many a woman would have let her mind lie idle while she worked in the fields, but I have ever seen this difference between you and other women, that your mind cannot be idle, and I say I never know what is coming out of you. And so I never tire of you, old woman.

rulers anywhere are always the first to fly, and the people must stay behind to be steadfast. And the noise of the battle grew more strong, hour by hour.

But O-Lan returned to the beating of his clothes and when tears dropped slowly and heavily from her eyes she did not put up her hand to wipe them away; only she beat the more steadily with her wooden stick upon the clothes spread over the stone.

He had collected from every place where he had hid his little stores of gain and he had borrowed all he could, and he could not even have had this except by bitter, frugal living.

Let no man's heart fail because of Goliath. - David

So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68)

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

None of us is ever OK, but we all get through everything just fine.

Patience is not learned in safety.

Finally, never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.

If we are willing to stand fully in our own shoes and never give up on ourselves, then we will be able to put ourselves in the shoes of others and never give up on them.