Quotes About Perseverance

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.

Rest assured that long patience and jealously concealed sorrows have shaped, refined, and hardened that woman who makes people exclaim: "She's made of steel!" She's simply "made of woman," and that's sufficient.

A woman can never die of grief. She is such a solid creature, so hard to kill!

Un uomo che ha guai finanziari è un uomo costretto tutto il tempo ad avere idee per trovare denaro. Non abbiate timore. Quando un individuo deve cavarsela, se la caverà

Soyez sûrs qu'une longue patience, que des chagrins jalousement cachés ont formé, affiné, durci cette femme dont on s'écrie 'elle est en acier !' Elle est 'en femme', simplement, et cela suffit

When does one stop writing? . . . I thought in the past that the work of writing was like other tasks; the tool is laid down and one cries out in delight: 'Finished!' and you clap your hands, from where there rain down grains of sand that first one believed to be precious . . . It is then that you read in the outlines traced by the grains of sand the words: 'To be continued . . .

Nulla porta-lo so- all'amore. E' lui che si butta di traverso sulla vostra strada. La sbarra per sempre o se se ne allontana lascia la via sconvolta, sfondata. Soltanto nel dolore una donna è capace di superare la mediocrità

When are a 'lady on your own,' in other words the landlords' abomination, outcast and terror all rolled into one, you take what you find, lodge where you may, and put up with newly plastered walls.

Like any decent reconaissance agent, he had fought his way into trouble in order to fight his way out

Dtui with her laundry-bin build was off the scale. There were no suitors queuing at her door. They wouldn't have to dig deep to find her kindness and humour, but they didn't even bring a spade.

Very soon he'll be well enough to roll about in mud, eat worms, and walk aimlessly around Nam Poo Fountain again.' 'I'm sure he doesn't see it as aimless. We all have different goals. His are achievable.

I don't know. On my last junket I was caught in the middle of a massacre. The one before that I was tortured and left for dead. Joy and recreation seem to have escaped me somehow.

A good communist," the man had said, "does not let go of the plough halfway across the paddy and leave the buffalo to find its own direction. He eats with her, tends to her injuries, and sleeps with her until the job is done." Siri had resisted the temptation to spread the word that the Party was advocating bestiality.

A good communist,' the man had said, 'does not let go of the plough halfway across the paddy and leave the buffalo to find its own direction.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody ( Joseph Heller, Catch

The secret of a happy life is to know when to stop and then to go that little bit further.

The secret of a happy life, Lewis, is to know when to stop and then to go that little bit further.

Jam nie z soli wyrósÅ' ani z roli, jeno z tego, co mnie boli

I have noticed that the stoutest pessimists, when fate or men try to take something out of their lives, fight tooth and nail, and cry out as loud as the greatest optimists.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph.

Who will hide from the fire that does not set?

Es difícil luchar contra el ánimo de uno, pues aquello que se desea le cuesta a uno el alma

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.