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Quotes About Perseverance

Those who cry that they can't fly in the sky, must just try to be what they want to be!
~ Unknown
If nothing else, one day you can look someone straight in the eyes and say, But I lived through it. And it made me who I am today.
~ Unknown
Be sure to keep believing in yourself, no matter who you used to be, and no matter what mistakes you make in these present days.
~ Unknown
People will try to knock you down, you might feel worthless, useless, or stupid, but as long as you have yourself and remember who you are you will always be OK.
~ Unknown
May you always see a blue sky overhead, my young friend; and then, even when the time comes, which is coming now for me, when the woods are all black, when night is fast falling, you will be able to console yourself, as I am doing, by looking up to the sky.
~ Marcel Proust
And since Habit, among all the plants that grow in human beings, is the one that has least need of nutritious soil in order to live, the first to appear on the most apparently arid rock, had he begun by treating the rupture as a pretense, he might eventually have become genuinely accustomed to it.
~ Marcel Proust
Et chaque fois la lâcheté qui nous détourne de toute tâche difficile, de toute oeuvre importante, m'a conseillé de laisser cela, de boire mon thé en pensant simplement à mes ennuis d'aujourd'hui, à mes désirs de demain qui se laissent remâcher sans peine.
~ Marcel Proust
Neither our greatest fears nor our greatest hopes are beyond the limits of our strength – we are able in the end to dominate the first and to achieve the second.
~ Marcel Proust
So rarely do we meet either with easy success or with irreversible defeat.
~ Marcel Proust
Let the intellect get to work; in the course of it there will be more than enough sorrows to enable him to finish it.
~ Marcel Proust
Il y a des jours montueux et malaisés qu'on met un temps infini à gravir et des jours en pente qui se laissent descendre à fond de train en chantant.
~ Marcel Proust
Carus Amicus Mussaeus, Ah! Quod tempus, bonus Deus, Landerirette Imbre sumus perituri. And La Moussaye reassures him with: Securae sunt nostrae vitae Sumus enim Sodomitae Igne tantum perituri Landeriri.
~ Marcel Proust
The hope of being relieved gives him the courage to suffer.
~ Marcel Proust
one can grow so well accustomed as to smile at them, to take the tormentor's side with a. happy determination which deludes one into the belief that it is not, really, tormenting;
~ Marcel Proust
D??ar?dan dayat?lan manevi bir darbenin uzant?s? olan ac? ?ekil de?i?tirmek ister; planlar yap?p bilgi toplamaya çal??arak onu buharla?t?raca??m?z? umut ederiz; say?s?z ba?kala??m evresinden geçmesini dileriz, çünkü bu, ac?y? oldu?u gibi korumak kadar cesaret gerektirmez; ac?m?zla birlikte uzand???m?z yatak bize darac?k, sert, so?uk gelir.
~ Marcel Proust
The love in a marriage turns like the lamp in a lighthouse, leaving you in darkness for long stretches, but it always comes back. I believe that but I can't tell whether it is a thought or a quotation.
~ Unknown
La gente grande no se acuerda ya de lo mucho que cuesta estudiar. Creen que uno no tiene nada en la cabeza... Y hay que ver lo difícil que es poner atención y no pensar en otra cosa. Porque hay tanto en qué pensar.
~ Unknown
un clavo en el muro es siempre un acto de esperanza sobre un lugar físico determinado, de esperanza y persistencia.
~ Unknown
If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.
~ Marcelene Cox
To this woman the word "worldwide" seems much worse than the word "war". Because Women have always being fighters: fighting themselves, fighting poverty, fighting drunken husbands, fighting children that need sorting out. But the whole world, dear God - worldwide is quite another thing.
~ Unknown
A lungo andare ogni speranza si consuma e si spegne; ma perché non dovrebbe accadere la stessa cosa alla disperazione? Finite le speranze, poi finiranno pure le disperazioni.
~ Unknown
También nosotros en algún momento de nuestra vida, de repente, nos encontramos con una cuerda menos. Pero debemos continuar porque el desafío "es descubrir cuánta música se puede hacer con lo que a uno le queda". Sufrimos de dolor y lloramos la pérdida de un ser querido, y sentimos que se detuvo la música de nuestra vida. Pero en algún momento, no en un día, no en una semana, no de un jalón, sino lentamente, a veces dos
~ Unknown
A rich man's soup - and all from a few stones. It seemed like magic!
~ Unknown
For some reason, no matter how much I hate a book, I can never manage to just stop reading—I have to see it through to the bitter end.
~ Marcia Clark