Quotes About Perseverance

She had done all she could. It didn't feel like enough. Nothing, in fact, ever did.

Co?my utracili? Nie wszystko przepad?o; niepodbita wola, studium zemsty, nigdy nie umieraj?ca nienawi??..." "I odwaga, która nigdy si? przed niczym nie ugina ani nie poddaje" - doko?czy?.

most of us, as we undergo the growing up process, do not get what we want or even what we should. We get what we have, and no more, and we find out how to make what we have work for us.

Ah, yes, crooked paths often end in quicksand.

We came from the bottom so we deserve to Balmain

But I can't go out with a guy who's written eleven and half pages in three years. That kind of thing is contagious.

things will be all right again, that I will pass through this time as I have passed through other times, that the vast and threatening blank ahead of me is a mere specter, that life is lighter and more playful than I'm giving it credit for.

I think back on all the rooms in all the cities and towns where I wrote the pieces of this book, all the doubt and days of failure but also that knot of stubbornness that's still inside me.

Tears are not endless.

Hello and goodbye are the same. Baya ban," she said. "As many times as you can stand it.

nothing. Some of the women are still wading

I will lay me down for to bleed awhile, the ballad went on in my head. Then I'll rise and fight with you again.

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

The road to success is always under construction

The determination that is his biggest strength . . . is also at times his fatal flaw. Like an unthinking machine, he'll just keep shoving, not realizing a step back, a one-night pause, could let some obstacle move out of the way and smooth his path.

nothing the western nations can do can stop her or keep her down.

Totisesti on olemassa hetkiä, jolloin elämä on meille liian suurta, jolloin kaikki tyynni on liitossa meitä vastaan pettääkseen ja tuhotakseen toiveemme; silloin ihminen on kuin kulkija, joka on metsässä kadottanut suuntamerkit tai joutunut maanalaiseen luolaan, missä törmää kivimuuriin, kääntyipä minne hyvänsä.

It is best not to swap horses while crossing the river.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.

I am a patient man--always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance, and also to give ample time for repentance. Still, I must save this government, if possible. What I cannot do, of course I will not do, but it may as well be understood, once for all, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available card unplayed.

Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being ... I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail.