Quotes About Perseverance

As Anton Chekhov so memorably put it, 'Others made me a slave but I must squeeze the slave out of me drop by drop.

i could not but be moved -- by the great and the humble alike -- to pity and admiration for those who demonstrated repeatedly that to ' be and do' is not a given.

It is fortification from the inside out that is wanted—the kind accomplished only by those prepared to do batter for a piece of emotional ground that must be taken again and again before it is actually secured.

The life we lead as writers is awful—it's boring, tedious, lonely," -Vivian Gornick

Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce.

Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they ever became was writers.

Once upon a time, in the days before Social Security or insurance companies, there lived a miller and his daughter, Della, who were fairly well-off and reasonably happy until the day their mill burned down.

Each generation of Americans has to face circumstances not of its own choosing, by which its character is measured and its spirit is tested. —President Jimmy Carter

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

Everyone must hoe his plot daily…

We didn't believe in tomorrow. We we couldn't forget what had happened yesterday.

Sisyphus would hardly stop if even he is on the top.

Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

[Optimism is] the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

Optimism," said Cacambo, "What is that?" "Alas!" replied Candide, "It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little impotent, and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

[Optimism] is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Those who wear out in faith and energy, and take to easy chairs and soft living;

Whoever the searchlights catch, Whatever the loudspeakers blare, We are not to despair.

Faith makes many of the mountains which it has to remove

To keep happy seems like walking on stilts. When one is tired, one falls off.