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Quotes About Perseverance

I underestimated her. I under-estimated her grit. She
~ Yann Martel
Cuando has sufrido mucho en la vida, cada dolor adicional es tan tolerable como insignificante.
~ Yann Martel
Hungry, tired, eyes sore, dying to pee, I would sit and take in every conceivable kind of movie. The only criterion for being shown at Canadian Images was that a movie be Canadian. It
~ Yann Martel
Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
~ Yann Martel
Când ai suferit foarte mult în via??, fiecare durere în plus poate fi atât neînsemnat?, cât ÅŸi de nesuportat
~ Yann Martel
Doubt is useful for awhile. We must all pass through the garden of Gesthemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
~ Yann Martel
Others fight a little, then lose hope. Still others--and I am one of those--never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It's not a question of courage. It's something constitutional, an inability to let go. It may be nothing more than life hungry stupidity.
~ Unknown
A child born with a weak eye can put a patch over the strong eye and train the weak eye to do what the strong eye already can.
~ Unknown
And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.
~ Yehuda Amichai
To live is to build a ship and a harbor at the same time. And to complete the harbor long after the ship was drowned.
~ Yehuda Amichai
Smile at the world with a smile from within…. Learn to be happy at will and to hold on to that happiness within, no matter what happens. Some people are absolutely crushed by their tests; others smile on in spite of their difficulties. Those who are unconquered in spirit are the real successes in life.
~ Yogananda
It ain't over 'til it's over.
~ Yogi Berra
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
~ Yogi Berra
You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.
~ Yogi Berra
It ain't the heat, it's the humility.
~ Yogi Berra
Muchas veces puedes sentirte como suspendido en la nada. Cansado, agobiado, sin fuerzas. Esa sensación no es real, tu mente negativa se apoderó de ti.
~ Unknown
Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.
~ Yoko Ono
Art is a way of survival.
~ Yoko Ono
When a man finds the woman he really loves, the one he respects and wants to call wife, there is nothing on earth he won't do for her. No mountain he won't hike. No river he won't wade. No door he won't open. She is Eve and there's not a snake crawling that can keep them apart.
~ Unknown
It was also clear that in order to survive at this game, we had to get serious.
~ Yvon Chouinard
The competition always stayed close on our heels, but we managed to keep innovating and improving our products.
~ Yvon Chouinard
Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.
~ Zadie Smith
No, Keeks - this is a good thing. It's been hell - I know it has. But I don't want to be without... us. You;re the person I - you're my life, Keeks. You have been and you will be and you are. i don't know how you want me to say it. You're for me - you are me. We've always known that - and there's no way out now anyway. I love you. You're for me.
~ Zadie Smith
progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated and reimagined if it is to survive.
~ Zadie Smith