Quotes About Perseverance

Tienes una piedra en el corazón, y hay días en que pesa tanto que no se puede hacer nada.

What can you expect of people when demons are their neighbors?

A long road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of introspection.

Songs choose their hour and their own season. When your tune's tin, there is a reason. The tone of a tune is your heart's mettle, and there's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle, or you'll sound sour as a broken bell.

You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to be done.

No podías nadar contra la corriente ni cambiar la dirección del viento. ¿Y si había tormenta? Pues tenías que atrancar las escotillas y achicar, y no soltar las jarcias.

Think then, how do you entertain the people who have seen your act a thousand times? You dust off the old tricks. You try out some new ones. You hope for the best. And, of course, the grand failures are as entertaining as the great successes.

Por qué no lo haces y punto, en lugar de hacer todo lo posible por intentarlo?

No me importaba lo que creyera el resto de la gente. Yo sabía la verdad, y no soy de los que se rinden fácilmente.

Me di la vuelta, mientras se me pintaba una sonrisa en la cara. Siempre me pasaba lo mismo: solo la encontraba cuando había abandonado toda esperanza

If you'd known how difficult it was, you never would have stood a chance of doing it.

there was a dignity to doing things in your own time.

This isn't the hand of some swooning princess who sits tatting lace and waiting for some prince to save her. This is the hand of a woman who would climb a rope of her own hair to freedom, or kill a captor ogre in his sleep. And this is the hand of a woman who would have made it through the fire on her own if I hadn't been there. Singed perhaps, but safe.

Half a loaf being better than none, I

La excelencia es la única compañera de la excelencia.

The old man was going nowhere to nowhere. He had no hat for his head no pack for his back. He had not a penny or a purse to put it in. He barely even owned his own name, and even that had been worn thin and threadbare through the years.

No es que espere que salgáis en busca de Haliax y los Siete. «Hombres pequeños, actos pequeños», digo yo siempre. Imagino que el problema reside en encontrar un trabajo lo bastante pequeño para unos hombres como vosotros. Pero tenéis recursos. Podríais recoger basura, o mirar si hay piojos en las camas de los burdeles cuando los visitáis.

The saying "time heals all wounds" is false. Time heals most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door. Third

Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To

I finally let my poor, tortured lute fall silent, remembering something my father had said long ago: 'Songs choose their hour and their own season. When your tune's tin, there is a reason. The tone of a tune is your heart's mettle, and there's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle or you'll sound sour as a broken bell.

For without hope what do any of us have?

What more can you expect?" she asked him quietly. "From men who live with demons for their neighbors? Even the best dog will bite that has been kicked enough.

La música es una amante orgullosa y temperamental. Si le dedicas el tiempo y la atención que se merece, es toda tuya. Pero si la desaíras, llegará un día en que la llamarás y ella no contestará.

Keys were hardly known for their complacency, and this one was near howling for a lock.