Quotes About Perseverance

because he was a man who had suffered but because he was a man who had suffered and could still crack jokes.

That was all he had ever aspired to, with a wife thrown into the bargain, maybe, and a kid or two to go along with her. It had never felt like too much to ask for, but after three years of struggling to write his dissertation, Tom finally understood that he didn't have it in him to finish. Or, if he did have it in him, he couldn't persuade himself to believe in the value of doing it anymore.

It was too small a step, somehow, too puny a thing to settle for after having lost so much. So the courtship continued, and the more Tom came to despise his job, the more stubbornly he defended his own inertia; and the more inert he became, the more he despised himself.

I have always been a plodder, a person who anguishes and struggles over each sentence, and even on my best days I do no more than inch along, crawling on my belly like a man lost in the desert. The smallest word is surrounded by acres of silence for me, and even after I manage to get that word down on the page, it seems to sit there like a mirage, a speck of doubt glimmering in the sand.

Sólo de la constancia nacen las grandes cosas

No importa lo que digan los demás; lo único importante es mantenerse en pie.

La única constante en este mundo es la mierda, muchacho.

The demands of words are too great for that; one meets with failure too often to exult in the occasional success.

La vida se metió por medio —dos años en el ejército, trabajo, matrimonio, responsabilidades familiares, necesidad de ganar cada vez más dinero, toda esa cagada que nos deja empantanados cuando no tenemos los cojones de luchar por lo que queremos—, pero nunca perdí el interés por los libros.

Knowledge comes slowly, and when it comes, it is often at great personal expense.

L'unica costante a questo mondo è la merda, ragazzo mio. Ci stiamo in piedi a mollo ogni giorno, ma a volte, quando arriva alle ginocchia o anche più su, devi solo tirarti fuori e andare avanti.

Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody.

Llevo mucho tiempo luchando por decirle adiós a algo, y esta lucha es lo único que de veras importa. La historia no está en las palabras; está en la lucha.

Afterwards, walking to the car with my father, he told me I had played a nice game. No I hadn't, I said, it was terrible. Well, you did your best, he answered. You can't do well everytime.

Ali onda, jednoga dana, zidovi vaše ku?e se najzad sruše. Ako vrata ipak još uvek stoje, sve što treba da uradite je da pro?ete kroz njih, i ponovo ste ušli unutra. Prijatno je spavati pod zvezdama. Nema veze ako pada kiša. Sigurno ne?e dugo.

when I finally hit bottom.

Find yourself drowning in a sea of trouble, and hard work can become the raft that ends up keeping you afloat.

Our lives are determined by manifold contingencies,' I said, trying to be as succinct as possible, 'and every day we struggle against these shocks and accidents in order to keep our balance.

one meets with failure too often to exult in the occasional success.

Iedere schrijver beoordeelt zichzelf - meestal hardvochtig - en dat is waarschijnlijk de reden dat schrijvers blijven schrijven: in de ijdele hoop dat ze het er de volgende keer beter van afbrengen.

That's American know-how for you. It keeps coming at you, and every minute there's new junk to push out the old junk.

Follow the music of your steps, and when the lights go out Don't whistle—sing.

Pero yo sí tengo un trabajo. Me levanto por la mañana como todo el mundo y luego intento ver si consigo llegar al final del día. Ése es un trabajo de jornada completa. Nada de diez minutos para el café, nada de fines de semana, nada de pagas extraordinarias, nada de vacaciones. No es que me queje, pero el sueldo es bastante bajo.

Pensi che a te non succederà mai, che non ti può succedere, che sei l'unica persona al mondo in cui queste cose non succederanno mai e poi, a una a una, cominciano a succederti tutte, esattamente come succedono a tutti gli alti