Quotes About Perseverance

This has been my vocation to make music of what remains.

You know, sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.

Habits of a lifetime were a lot to be sawed through by a wedding ring.

Gram is . . . is herself again, I'll have

Certain of himself, confident of what he could make in his mind, going through life as if he had always a following wind.

The saying is that what does not kill you strengthens you, but sometimes you wonder which will happen first.

It takes some real hard running to stay in the same place

People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.

People who are successful succeed because they consider each mistake an opportunity to learn - not an excuse to quit.

They would beat him and hammer him and drill him. He bobbed, and ducked, and refused to fall. They struck out, as if they were driving nails into him, and with every blow he felt more like himself

Jer, i najve?e pustinje imaju svoje prole?e, pa ma kako kratko i neprimetno bilo.

Biti ?ovek, ro?en bez svoga znanja i bez svoje volje, ba?en u okean postojanja. Morati plivati. Postojati. Nositi identitet. Izdržati atmosferski pritisak svega oko sebe, sve sudare, nepredvidljive i nepredvi?ene postupke, svoje i tu?e, koji ponaj?eš?e nisu po meri naših snaga. A povrh svega, treba još izdržati i svoju misao o svemu tome. Ukratko: biti ?ovek

Govorite mi da ?u izgoriti, da ?e iza mene ostati samo pepeo, ali ?u bar znati da sam bio vatra. A iza vas ?e ostati samo balavi trag.

Prevariti se u jednoj velikoj nadi nije sramota. Sama cinjenica da je takva nada mogla da postoji vredi toliko da nije suvise skupo placena jednim razocarenjem, ma kako tesko ono bilo.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learnt.

Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.

When the netted fence of spiderwebs that darkens my ruined house can hold the wind in its strands- that's when these troubled thoughts will blow away. . . .

The way I must enter leads through darkness to darkness- O moon above the mountain's rim, please shine a little further on my path,

A turtle with no legs tends not to go anywhere.

You can only flap your arms so much before gravity catches up to you.

The word never means the spirit which sits with folded hands and simply bears things. It is victorious endurance … Christian steadfastness, the brave and courageous acceptance of everything life can do to us, and the transmuting of even the worst into another step on the upward way. It is the courageous and triumphant ability to bear things, which enables a man to pass breaking point and not to break, and always to greet the unseen with a cheer.7

Often we think of patience in passive terms, as if the patient person is utterly submissive and half asleep.