Quotes About Perseverance

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?

In common with the rest of the world she was eager to grasp at any straw which might rehabilitate her dreams.

It's easier to get your high school diploma, become a police inspector, or get your master's degree in literature than to commit suicide. The success rate is less than eight percent.

There's a way that the force of disappointment can be alchemized into something that will paradoxically renew you.

We have seen time gradually dispel every unfavorable foreboding and our Constitution surmount every adverse circumstance dreaded at the outset as beyond control.

Man geht auf ein Loch zu, weiß, dass man hineinfallen wird, und fällt hinein.

For 56 days they had given everything, endured everything; they had achieved the impossible, not once but again and again. They deserved to win; and if they were now being robbed of victory, then the real thieves weren't the People's Army, the 'rats of the Nam Youm', or anyone else in the filth of this last valley, but men who slept between clean sheets far away.

It was a bastard, life. It had the knack of throwing you a curve every now and then to keep you interested. To give you a reason to keep going. Then, just as you thought you had cracked it, you took delivery of a blow that was so severe you were amazed at how you could ever have survived it. But somehow you did, and somehow you carried on.

Great is truth and it prevails. 3 Esdras 4.41

It's not what happens to you but how you deal with it.

Life is like a shit sandwich. The more bread you've got, the less shit you have to eat.

Long is the way And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light Paradise Lost (1667) John Milton, 1608–74 For the love of money is the root of all evil 1 Timothy 6:10

You just had to keep going, day by day.

It's what you do. Just keep trying, day by day, to sort everything out.

struggling. Eventually, after about five minutes,

You make people into what you want them to be and, then, when they break your heart, you have to find the strength to carry on.

people who feel she ain't

Now, as a wage earner, she had gained a certain grudging respect, but it had been a long time coming. At fifteen, she understood her life better than people three times her age; she needed to keep the peace until she had enough money to set up on her own, or marry herself out of it all.

walked from it he hawked deep in his throat before

Walking away was easy, it was staying around and sorting out your own shit that took guts, that made you a man.

Once, a long time ago, I was in a similar state to you. I went to Marge's. Well, she said something that I'll never forget. She said that self-pity was a luxury none of us could afford. Those weren't her exact words, but that was what she meant. You must pick yourself up, brush yourself down . . .' 'And start all over again.' Carla sang the last sentence and they both laughed again.

Non Omnis Moriar. I shall not altogether die. Horace (65 BC-8 BC)

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.