Quotes About Perseverance

Why didn't I become an architect? Answer: Because I thought the sheets of paper on which I was to pour my dreams were blank. But after twenty-five years of writing, I have come to understand that those pages are never blank. (Orhan Pamuk)

Why didn't I become an architect? Answer: Because I thought the sheets of paper on which I was to pour my dreams were blank. But after twenty-five years of writing, I have come to understand that those pages are never blank.

Writing is 90% struggle. The other 10% is up to you.

We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.

However, as we have shown above, this is not how the passage was intended to be read. Rather, it is a dramatic statement of the central truth that no matter what the forces of evil may throw at God's people, in the final analysis God's purpose and victory stand secure. For

Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.

Mossy had trouble breathing. He was not convinced the rewards repaid the effort. He took breath in, but after that let it fend for itself.

To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.

I lay in my bed for I don't know how long doing my best to work things out, and my best certainly wasn't good enough.

All the soul of man is resolution, which in valiant men falters never, until their last breath.

MARÍA. ¡Ay, quién pudiera darte la tranquilidad que tienen los lagos dormidos...! JESÚS. ¡Madre, si yo fuera lago lloverían constantemente piedras sobre mi superficie! ¡Estoy hecho para el dolor!

My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.

Sometimes when you aim for the stars, you hit the moon.

I held on to this fantasy like a stubborn little pit bull.

The time is short and the hills is dark and I's got miles to go before I sleeps. Is is no easy road.

onward he went, a named thing, rooted in the universe, yet apart from it, through the night and the rain-dancing streets.

Never do it, never make it, too far, too high, too much," and she shouted down to them, "Of course I can, of course I will, watch me, watch me!

Striving, straining for the clouds, she could hear the voices in the manswarm below shouting, "Never do it, never make it, too far, too high, too much," and she shouted down to them, "Of course I can, of course I will, watch me, watch me!

With her last breath and final erg of energy she topped the wall (sharp-edged as the razor of wisdom) and saw what lay beyond.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.

Here's to all the songs and all their singers, in times of darkness and times of light.