Quotes About Perseverance

Hell is just resistance to life.

It's a peculiar thing to take a step forward in middle age, but having done it I don't intend to retreat.

If you can't face living your life day by day, you must live it minute by minute.

La fuerza de voluntad es inútil si no se va a algún lado

La valentía de ella, al fin y al cabo, no era otra cosa que su determinación por sobrevivir.

What's to become of us? We can't go on like this." "Yes, we can go on like this," said Cesare. "We can go on exactly like this for the rest of our lives.

Florence tenía buen corazón, aunque eso sirve de bien poco cuando de lo que se trata es de sobrevivir.

Above all, though, we don't want a weakly habit of constant complaint. As a rough guide, remember that while the average man is ill for four days a year, a grown woman must expect to spend one fourth of her life in actual pain. Daisy felt a rush of admiration. So far she herself had done nothing like her fair share.

Salvatore threw up his hands. What's to become of us? We can't go on like this. Yes, we can go on like this, said Cesare. We can go on exactly like this for the rest of our lives.

Courage and endurance are useless if they are never tested

When they married he wouldn't be able to go on where he was. On the other hand, if she wouldn't have him, he didn't see that he would be able to go on at all.

and believe me, Mrs. Green, she'll be pegging out her own washing until the day she dies.

El corage y la perseverancia son inútiles si no se ponen a prueba

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It was like one of those terrible sights of the racecourse or the battle field where wallowing living beings persevere dumbly in their duty although mutilated beyond repair.

Old age is an insult. Old age is a slap in the face. It sabotages a fine mind (...).

Any book represents effort, struggle, work--I know, I write them myself--every book deserves attention, even if that ends with dismissal.

Helen,' said Mr Harrison, with a sigh, 'we all know that living with James can be very trying. But it does help to develop a resistance to some of his more flagrant lines of deception.

Life must go on, no matter how large your problems may be.

Leave it till the morning. We'll all feel stronger then.

And who am I, that I should be asking you of all people for an easy life? As you think best then Lord, but only, give me patience when my own runs out...

Down the avenue of trees I can see a spot of sunlight. I'm trying so hard to get there.

Will you be all right? Heater on twice, color contrast down, and keep hitting buttons on the extractor fan until it stops or I go mad. I think I can manage that.

As boiling patients and surgeons was not practical, Lister had to find some other way to safely eliminate germs on all surfaces. He settled on carbolic acid, a product made from coal tar that had been used successfully to treat stinking city drains and that had already been tried as a dressing on surgical wounds, without very positive results. Lister persevered and met with success in the case of an eleven-year-old boy who came to the Royal Infirmary with a compound fracture of the leg.