Quotes About Perseverance

leave where I'm not welcome," she said matter-of-factly. "Everything else I can make up along the way.

Patrick Rothfuss

Patrick Rothfuss

What other option did I have, now that words had failed me? What do any of us have when words fail us?

This isn't the hand of some swooning princess who sits tatting lace and waiting for some prince to

el clavo más alto es el que primero recibe el martillazo.

I was like a sparrow in a storm, unable to find a safe branch to cling to. Unable to control the tumbling motion of my flight.

Tuan volgen oketh ama ~ Lass dich davon nicht verrückt machen. Wörterlich aber bedeutet es: Steck dir deswegen keinen Löffel ins Auge.

The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain. Third

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

Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed. After

So they clutched at her like shipwrecked sailors, clinging to the rocks despite the fact that they are being battered to death against them.

Sintió como la sangre caliente volvía a darle vida y como se apoderaba de él la voluntad de llevar a cabo lo que se había propuesto, incluso con más fuerza que antes, porque ahora la voluntad no tenía su origen en un simple anhelo, sino que había surgido de una decisión meditada… Poseía para ello una personalidad demasiado tenaz, un temperamento demasiado retorcido y un espíritu demasiado refinado.

God gives good times and bad times, but He does not wish us to bemoan and bewail the bad times, but to prove ourselves men.

If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

It's like the fellah in the lavatory said, No job's over 'til the paperwork's done.

Old boy, in this life there will always be a certain amount of shit to be shovelled. I really would urge you to buy a long-handled spade and simply get on with it.

can't be done," Buzz said. "You're only saying that because it never has," Loki said.

No, the world is not perfect, but at least there are those who are trying. You can find some of them bellying up to the bar in a place called Bulfinche's Pub. Follow the brightest rainbow in the sky. Let it lead you past the ills of the world to a safe haven where the drinks are cold, the food hot, and the company exceptional. The bartenders are pretty darn good, too. Next time the pot of gold calls to you, come in and see us. First drink is on the house.

I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

stones, even, are smoother for the dust.

Just calling one's practice "approach and accomplishment" and staying in retreat for years will produce nothing but hardship. Completing hundreds of millions of mantras will not even bring the warmth of the ordinary qualities that mark one's progress on the path! In other words, if the essential points of the path are not taken into account, perseverance will amount to nothing more than chasing a mirage.

We are told repeatedly in Scripture to prepare for hardships; so why do we believe our lives should be characterized by ease?