Quotes About Perseverance

Zar mislite da ?e ?ovjek posti?i ono što želi?

Ali ta slabost, i taj strah pred neslu?enim teško?ama, ta želja da se legne i umre, da se odustane i primi sudbina, ne smiju sad da me zaustave. Nikakav zamor ni klonulost ne mogu me sprije?iti da izvršim obavezu. Moram. Idi naprijed, poslije umri.

If a sparrow cannot swallow the mouthful of the Anka-bird, it will still eat as much as it can. You cannot scoop up the whole sea with a jug, but whatever you scoop up is also the sea.

Uvijek ima vremena za ono sto je neprijatno.

Boli me glava od pi?a i noga zbog gelera. Za glavobolju sam ja kriv, za geler u nozi nisam: dobio sam ga u borbi za pomjenu svijeta. Glavobolju sam dobio žele?i da sa svijetom uspostavim prisnost. Sad mislim kako je možda lakše mijenjati svijet nego sa njim postati prisan.

Može biti r?avo kad ?ovjek ne osje?a da je vrijeme dugo. U ratu nije dosadno, ni u nesre?i, ni u muci. Kad je teško, nije dosadno.

You can't run away forever but there's nothing wrong with getting a good head start.

Well, you know, trying's a trap. It's the doing makes the donkey drive.

The everything of womanhood carries no reward at all. And yet, everything still has to get done. So you keep working and you stop waiting, but the hope is still there, tucked in a corner. Sometimes it's the only thing that keeps you going—the hope that that someone—that one person—will applaud.

count to forty.

You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea

Nothing is easy in life. No plans were ever unhindered.

Looking at the shell of a young life, she always felt a stab in the heart. And in this job, grief didn't lurk—it swarmed. She now tried to dodge the creeping pain and analyze the scene with fresh eyes.

All that heartbreak? It got us here.

I was coming around to the belief that whether you liked it or not, Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop

I mean, why? Why did I go on believing? Did it make sense? Why did I go on thinking, even when [he] slammed me around, that if you are good enough, patient enough, for long enough, your reward will come?

Fighting back is what I've discovered I do best.

Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just have to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

Mam) ignorant as a thistle, married to a drunk and pushing out baby after baby, each of which had to be clothed and fed until it grew up and left, or died.

I shall bring him his tea and work myself to death by the time I am thirty bearing children and scrubbing floors and working in the fields digging turnips till my hands bleed and my back gives out and everyone urges me to keep on for just one more year, at which point I will die of exhaustion and the meagerness of my own life. I will love him and care for him, will never tell him to get his own tea, or sweep the ashes from the hearth or give birth to his own twelfth child himself.

Che ti piaccia o no, le cose succedono e una volta che cominciano a succedere devi solo tenere duro e stare a vedere dove ti mollano quando finiscono.

Tennis, as we know, was not my sport. Sport, in fact, was not my sport.

Everyone knows how women soldier on, how women dream up blueprints, recipes, ideas for a better world, and then sometimes lose them on the way to the crib in the middle of the night, on the way to the Stop & Shop, or the bath. They lose them on the way to greasing the path on which their husband and children will ride serenely through life.

And I also know that pain can seem like an endless ribbon. You pull it and you pull it. You keep gathering it toward you, and as it collects, you really can't believe that there's something else at the end of it. Something that isn't just more pain. But there's always something else at the end; something at least a little different. You never know what that thing will be, but it's there.