Quotes About Perseverance

I always believe that I have a certain toughness in common with the peasants, who also do not eat so particularly well, and yet live and work on.

And let me just say this: I think as much of brotherly integrity when it comes to Boussod's money as you do. It has never played us false. And we have sweated far too much doing good work to get annoyed at being called thieves or incompetents.

Ich wäre sehr froh, wenn Du in mir doch etwas anderes sehen könntest als eine Art Nichtstuer.

You get angry whenever I expostulate with you, or rather you don't give a damn, and all the rest of it, which we know by now, and yet I believe a time will come when, of your own accord, you will come to the conclusion that you have been too weak to persevere in trying to help me regain some credit with people.

But don't worry too much about it, we shall not fail, but what I tell you is true - from the moment that I send this letter off till I get your answer, which I hope, however, will cross mine, I shall be without a cent, and it will mean fasting again. Well, let's hope we shall be together soon, and that the worst will be over.

Personally I believe that the adversities one meets with in the ordinary course of life do us as much good as harm. The very complaint that makes one ill today, overwhelming one with discouragement, that same thing - once the disease has passed off - gives us the energy to get up and to want to be completely recovered tomorrow.

How much sadness there is in life! Nevertheless one must not become melancholy. One must seek distraction in other things, and the right thing is to work.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

It's better to have a gay life of it than to commit suicide.

The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

You fell off the tree of fucked-up-weird and slammed every branch on the way down.

It seemed strange in a way. Only a little more than an hour before, I was about to be killed by a homicidal maniac. Now I was going out for pancakes. I recalled one of my mother's cherished sayings: God works in mysterious ways.

What is it that draws us back to the broken places? Maybe

Saber fer les coses que no es volen fer ajuda a fer bé les coses que es volen fer

Vinny Flynn

At some point, you can't lift this boulder with just your own strength. And if you find that you need to move bigger and bigger boulders up hills, you will need more and more help.

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because your tears won't let you see the stars.

Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.