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Quotes About Perseverance

Even here, even as we suffer, life is still worth living....
~ Nando Parrado
I come from a plane that fell into the mountains. I am Uruguayan. We have been walking for ten days. I have a friend up here who is injured. In the plane there is fourteen injured people. We have to get of here quickly and we don't have any food. We are weak. When are you going to come and fetch us? Please. We can't even walk. Where are we?
~ Nando Parrado
The mountain was teaching me a hard lesson: camaraderie is a noble thing, but in the end death is an opponent each of us would face in solitude.
~ Nando Parrado
Things make sense. There are rules and realities that will not change to suit your needs. It's your job to understand those rules. If you do, and if you work hard and work smart, you will be all right.
~ Nando Parrado
Gustavo and Roberto suspected gangrene, but Rafael never allowed himself to sink into self-pity. Instead he kept his courage and humor, even as the poison flowed through his system and the flesh of his leg rotted before his eyes. "I am Rafael Echavarren!" he would shout every morning, "and I will not die here!" There was no surrender in Rafael, no matter how he suffered, and I felt stronger every time I heard him say those words.
~ Nando Parrado
Love existed, still in existence and will still exist no matter how the world turns out.
~ Unknown
Spirit fight do not require population to conquer.
~ Unknown
The rewards for hardwork is awesome but does not guarantee success.
~ Unknown
The stress in your journey depends on how you walk.
~ Unknown
Even someday when we disappear... ...and new Sailor Senshis are born... Sailor Moon, you will always be Invincible. The most beautiful shining star.
~ Naoko Takeuchi
A year may be easy, but its days are hard indeed.
~ Naomi Alderman
It is hard now, very hard, but the difficulty is familiar.
~ Naomi Alderman
All things, when measured in spans of years, seem simple. But human lives do not occur in years but slowly, day by day. A year may be easy, but its days are hard indeed.
~ Naomi Alderman
I think that's what most of us want, really, isn't it? A challenge that's just hard enough that we can accomplish it, but it'll take everything we've got. So that there's no room left in us for the doubt, the worry, the internal crises. We have to let it fill us up because that's the only way to get the job done.
~ Naomi Alderman
every measure of talent brings with it nine measures of work.
~ Naomi Alderman
There are no shortcuts. Not to understanding and not to knowledge. You can't put anyone into a box. Listen, even a stone isn't the same as any other stone,
~ Naomi Alderman
She can't afford to afford to look weak, not at a time like this.
~ Naomi Alderman
It's a sort of pride to her that she watched the whole thing without wincing or looking away or carrying on.
~ Naomi Alderman
I know you feel that everything's been taken away from you. But you'll get things back. It just won't be quite like before. But it'll still be good.
~ Unknown
There can always be healing, even if there is no cure.
~ Naomi Judd
Naomi Mitchison,
~ Naomi Mitchison
But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at once, I would do nothing forever.
~ Naomi Novik
sustains us day after day. But the relentless
~ Naomi Ragen
This is the deck of cards you've been dealt. Now you have to deal with it.
~ Naomi Ragen