Quotes About Perseverance

The best relationships in our lives are the best not because they have been the happiest ones, they are that way because they have stayed strong through the most tormentful of storms.

Pankaj Mishra (#iampm)

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

Every time he makes plans for his future, he seems to fail. Every time he reaches forward, the world leans against him, pressing him down.

La competizione non è per tutti e soprattutto non seleziona i migliori, solo i meno sensibili.

One characteristic apparently common to all chess players is a refusal to admit that their position in a lost game was truly indefensible.

And just as a single victory can redeem many a defeat, so a single defeat can devalue or even eradicate a long string of successes.

E, d'altra parte, così come una sola vittoria può riscattarci da molte sconfitte, è pur vero che una sola sconfitta deprezza, se non cancella del tutto, anche una lunghissima serie di successi.

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

I've made all my money on my own without my family and I work very hard.

the backs of my heels were raw with weeping blisters

So we survive, it is the world.

This book is for teachers who have good days and bad and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one loves... when you love your work that much, and many teachers do, the only way to get out of trouble is to go deeper in.

But before we come to that center, full of light, we must travel in the dark. Darkness is not the whole of the story—every pilgrimage has passages of loveliness and joy—but it is the part of the story most often left untold. When we finally escape the darkness and stumble into the light, it is tempting to tell others that our hope never flagged, to deny those long nights we spent cowering in fear.

no sacrifice no victory

the value of hard work is important, for which nothing comes free.

Tout cela fera mal, mais plus tard seulement.

Everyday there's something to survive.

Gina] I got them Bad Old Cosmic C-Word Blues Again. [Mark] What does 'c-word' mean? [Gina] It means continuing to believe even when you don't feel it. Not letting go even when you can't find squat to hold onto. Going all the way from the beginning to the end.

And it still goes on. And we still turn away.

Going against the grain takes courage, but that courage pays off. You'll do better as an investor if you think for yourself and seek out bargains in parts of the market that everyone else has forsaken, rather than buying the flavor of the month in the financial press.

Some nations and some people melt in the heat of crisis and come apart like fat in the pan. Others meet the challenge and harden. I think you're going to harden.

One calling for optimism, pragmatism, and a belief that all problems might be solved, with enough courage, determination, good