Quotes About Perseverance

We may scale cliffs; but to tramp forever in the mud is another thing.

Whoever wishes to rise above the common level must be prepared for a great struggle and recoil before no obstacle. A great writer is just simply a martyr whom the stake cannot kill.

Le monde est un bourbier, tâchons de rester sur les hauteurs.

In looking forward to what remains to be done, my readers will perhaps echo what my publishers say, "Please God to spare you!" I only ask to be less tormented by men and things than I have hitherto been since I began this terrific labor. I

Kaunis ei ole sen arvoista kuin kestävä, ja kestävä, se olen minä!

Doing his utmost, deploying all his energy, a young man setting out from zero can wind up after ten years somewhere below where he started.

This poor young man had felt there the gnawing of that burning poverty which is a sort of crucible from which great talents are to emerge as pure and incorruptible as diamonds, which may be subjected to any shock without being crushed. In the fierce fire of their unbridled passions they acquire the most impeccable honesty, and get into the habit of fighting the battles which await genius with the constant work by which they coerce their cheated appetites.

Like the moth whose feet are caught in the molten wax of a candle, Rouget rapidly used up his remaining energy.

En se résignant, le malheureux consomme son malheur.

Spirit-filled Christians are quite apt to be physically exhausted at the close of the day. They are weary in the work, but not weary of the work.

Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.

I will mount a long wind some day and break the heavy waves, And set my cloudy sail straight and bridge the deep, deep sea.

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.

For every successful actor or actress, there are countless numbers who don't make it. The name of the game is rejection. You go to an audition and you're told you're too tall or you're too Irish or your nose is not quite right. You're rejected for your education, you're rejected for this or that and it's really tough.

America likes to think Every one can recover from every thing, But about this, Especially, America is wrong.

Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out," Luther quoted. "John Wooden?

Si uno lucha desesperadamente, sobrevivirá. Si intenta sobrevivir, entonces morirá.

I am not made for despair

You've been here before. It won't kill you. It feels like you can't breathe, but you actually are breathing. It feels like you'll never stop crying, but you actually will.

women are like the Olympic athletes of grudges.

The lowest point of your life can lead to the highest.

A marriage is hard work and sometimes it's a bit of a bore. It's like housework. It's never finished. You've just got to grit your teeth and keep working away at it, day after day.

Each time she fell out of love with him, he saw it happen and waited it out. He never stopped loving her, even those times when he felt deeply hurt and betrayed by her, even in that bad year when they talked about separating, he'd just gone along with it, waiting for her to come back to him, thanking God and his dad up above each time she did.