Quotes About Perseverance

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.

Quando si perdono il senso dell'umorismo e il coraggio nello stesso momento, è segno che anche la partita è persa.

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.

My great great grandparents were slaves. And now I'm running for president of the United States. Is this a great country or what?!

There is nothing in this world, incredible though it may seem, to which the human body and with it the human soul cannot in time learn to adapt itself.

Your time will come. But if it doesn't come, don't let that make no difference either.

Herman Parish

It's not normal, like chasing a little white ball and whacking it into eighteen different holes.

Remember the good hours when the words are flowing well. And never mind the bad hours; there is no life without them.

Oh, wise physician of a wasted land!

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

After thousands of nights under those same stars, he woke up as many thousands of mornings under that same sun and trudged for as many thousands of days under the same sky, always feeling out of place.

Because he had enjoyed every advantage since birth, one of the few privileges denied to Benjamin Rash was that of a heroic rise: his was not a story of resilience and preseverance of the tale of an unbreakable will forging a golden destiny for itself out of little more than dross. In and out of sleep. Like a needle coming out from under a black cloth and then vanishing again. Unthreaded.

Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. -- The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.

No words are adequate for the suffering caused by hunger. To this day I have to show hunger that I escaped his grasp. Ever since I stopped having to go hungry, I literally eat life itself. And when I eat, I am locked up inside the taste of eating. For sixty years, ever since I came back from the camp, I have been eating against starvation.

Nenhuma palavra é adequada para o sofrimento causado pela fome. Até hoje eu tenho que mostrar a fome que escapei do seu alcance. Desde que parei de passar fome, literalmente como a própria vida. E quando eu como, fico trancada dentro do gosto de comer. Por sessenta anos, desde que voltei do acampamento, tenho comido contra a fome.