Quotes About Perseverance

I've had it with this waiting business. I can cope with another woman, but I can't cope with being ignored when there's nothing in his way.

It was the type of pain he felt he could endure for as long as he had to.

But there was nothing wrong with their marriage. I could be a fool for believing this one hundred percent, but there was never anyone for Dominic but Jacinta and vice versa. They knew they'd get through the shitty part." "But they didn't," he argues. "They're not divorced, Tom. That marriage is not over.

It will make her stronger." "She was strong enough!

You are strong and young, and you will find a way out of this darkness. But that path will belong to you. No one else.

No llores —le dijo ella con dureza, aunque las lágrimas le cubrían su propio rostro—. No llores, Finnikin, porque si empezamos a llorar, nuestras lágrimas no acabarán nunca.

sabe qué le digo? Que ahora mismo ya tengo bastante superadas las pequeñas decepciones de la vida.

Me levanto y ando hacia ella, porque mis tiempos de esperar más han terminado.Si quiero más, tengo que ir a buscarlo, exigirlo, abrazarlo con todas mis fuerzas y tratarlo de la mejor manera de la que soy capaz.

This is the best night of my life," Raffy says, crying. "Raffy, half our House has burnt down," I say wearily. "We don't have a kitchen." "Why do you always have to be so pessimistic?" she asks. "We can double up in our rooms and have a barbecue every night like the Cadets." Silently I vow to keep Raffy around for the rest of my life.

Sir Topher finally looked up. "Because any hope beyond that, my boy, would be too much. I feared we would drown in it." "Then I choose to drown," Finnikin said. "In hope. Rather than float into nothing.

Monsters always make more trouble before they die.

You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had. I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression my father had after he'd watched my first tennis lesson. "Sweetie," she said, "that's what a lot of life is.

Even in the darkest of places, there is light. Never lose hope.

Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.

You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy.

Look, we all want to be brave, don't we?' said Moss. 'Well, this is how we do it: we keep on trying, even if we don't know if it's working, or how things will turn out. That's what courage means.

I feel scared, if I'm honest, and part of me wants to stay here for ever. But most of me knows we have to carry on.

I guess people do have different ways of dealing with stuff,' she said diplomatically, 'but you can't run away for ever.

Bread – like real love – took time, cultivation, strong loving hands and patience. It lived, rising and growing to fruition only under the most perfect circumstances. If the water was too warm, it killed the yeast; too cool and the yeast was not inspired to grow the bread. Without enough sugar, the yeast would starve, leaving the bread flat and lifeless; if the air was not humid enough, the yeast could not spur the bread to reach its full potential.

For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed you will say to this mountain, "Move from here to there," and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.' The mustard seed signified inner strength.

Apparently being Cinderella isn't so bad after all.

I realize that," said Ms. Daniels. "Unfortunately, hard work is not always enough.

Of the 1,019 Jews who arrived from Westerbork on September 5, 258 men and 212 women survived the selection process. The remaining 549, among them all the children, were killed immediately after their arrival in the gas chambers of Birkenau and their bodies burned in the neighboring crematoria. All eight residents of 263 Prinsengracht survived the first round. Anne, at fifteen years and three months, was among the youngest.

Just be you-strong and honest. The rest falls into place if you do that. It always has. It always will. Remember that. No matter what happens over the . . . centuries ahead of you, remember to be honest with yourself. And if you fail, forgive yourself. You'll make mistakes. The whole world is new, and they have so many more years in the then you.