Quotes About Perseverance

Over the course of the next three years, Hirschmann shuffled between four countries, enlisted to fight in a civil war, joined an underground resistance, and got a doctoral degree.

Tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Don't tell me no this time, Aura. Please. Don't make me stop.

Trebuie s? fie un fel de uÈ™urare în faptul de a-È›i fi ajuns scopurile.E ca un soi de sprint în care tocmai forÈ›ezi, dup? care treci linia de sosire È™i-È›i tragi sufletul-ai reuÈ™it!De fapt, niciodat? nu reuÈ™eÈ™ti-întotdeauna trebuie s-o iei de la cap?t.

We worked steadily for five-and-twenty minutes, and did four potatoes.

I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do.  It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me.  I can sit and look at it for hours.  I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Only those who have worn the crown of suffering can look upon that wondrous light; and they, when they return, may not speak of it, or tell the mystery they know. Once

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Ko lai dara - š?s pasaules dz?ve ir vien?gi r?gts p?rbaud?jums, un cilv?ks rad?ts nepatikšan?m k? ugunskura dzirksteles - lidojumam.

The more we peeled, the more peel there seemed to be left on; by the time we had got all the peel off and all the eyes out, there was no potato left - at least none worth speaking of.

Kad es ko gribu un nevaru dab?t, es k??stu p?rgalv?gs.

It does not seem good to be always going with the current.  There is more satisfaction in squaring one's back, and fighting against it, and winning one's way forward in spite of it—at least, so I feel, when Harris and George are sculling and I am steering.

presero posto con un sospiro e con l'espressione tipica dei primi martiri cristiani quando cercavano di mettersi comodi contro il palo del supplizio.

A new life begins for us with every second. Let us go forward joyously to meet it. We must press on whether we will or no, and we shall walk better with our eyes before us than with them ever cast behind.

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to work, mind you; I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. (Chapter XV)

I walked into that reading-room a happy healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

the picture would be up – very crooked and insecure, the wall for yards round looking as if it had been smoothed down with a rake, and everybody dead beat and wretched – except Uncle Podger.

Our Calvary may be a very little hill compared with the mountains where Prometheus suffered, but to us it is steep and lonely.

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

They seem to keep a specially cutting east wind, waiting for me, when I go to bathe in the early morning; and they pick out all the three-cornered stones, and put them on the top, and they sharpen up the rocks and cover the points over with a bit of sand so that I can't see them, and they take the sea and put it two miles out, so that I have to huddle myself up in my arms and hop, shivering, through six inches of water.  And when I do get to the sea, it is rough and quite insulting.

If I succeed, if I am strong enough to figth the world for myself and win, that will mean I am strong enough and clever to help others

Melhor trabalhar e fracassar do que passar a vida dormindo.

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work; it fascinates me, I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart. You cannot give me too much work; to accumulate work has almost become a passion with me; my study is so full of it now that there is hardly an inch of room for any more.