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Quotes About Perseverance

After vacancy has dusted off the cobwebs of our unsettled recollections, we reach out one more time
~ Jason Wilson
I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.
~ Jasper Johns
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
~ Jasper Johns
Even in the darkest regions, people have discovered their right of freedom.
~ Javier Bardem
Even though how long the light may last, the sun will always rise up above you
~ Javier Mantilla
The bad thing about terrible misfortunes, the kind that tear us apart and appear to be unendurable, is that those who suffer them believe or almost demand that the world should end right there, and yet the world pays no heed and carries on regardless and even tugs at the sleeve of the person who suffered the misfortune, I mean, it won't just let them depart this world the way a disgruntled spectator might leave the theatre, unless the unfortunate person kills him or herself.
~ Javier Marías
Senki sem törÅ'dhet bele, hogy örökre tönkretették az életét.
~ Javier Marías
Jedan par, pomislih, koji zavisi i živi od svojih prepreka; jedan par koji ?e se rasturiti kad ih ne bude bilo, ako ga pre toga ne rasture te iste, tako zamorne i otegnute prepreke, koje ?e me?utim morati da napajaju i neguju i da nastoje da ve?no potraju ako ih je ve? sustigao trenutak kada ne mogu bez ti i ja, ili jedno bez drugog.
~ Javier Marías
E algumas noites vi a brasa do cigarro dele na escuridão, como se fosse a de um soldado nas trincheiras, tão exausto e enojado que já não se importa de denunciar a sua posição e morrer de um disparo certeiro guiado pelo seu lume persistente.
~ Javier Marías
Tupra había calculado que la misión me ocuparía unos meses a lo sumo, pero sabía por experiencia que todo se alarga y se enreda y se anuda, y resulta más trabajoso de como se lo pintan a uno; y que los planes de los hombres jamás salen lisos, sino rugosos siempre.
~ Javier Marías
Una pareja, pensé, que depende y vive de sus obstáculos: una pareja que se deshará cuando ya no los haya, si es que no la deshacen antes esos mismos obstáculos tan fatigosos y prolongados, que sin embargo tendrán que alimentar y cuidar y procurar hacer eternos, si ya les ha alcanzado el momento de no poder pasarse sin ti y sin mí, o sin el uno el otro.
~ Javier Marías
Quizá no contaba con que hay personas que, si lo divisan a uno y lo eligen, no abandonan ni se retiran del todo, sino que son como el buitre: se alejan y trazan círculos y sobrevuelan y esperan y prueban nueva fortuna.
~ Javier Marías
O mal das desgraças muito grandes, que nos partem ao meio e que parece que não vamos poder suportar, é que quem as padece acredita, ou quase exige que com elas o mundo acabe, e contudo o mundo não faz caso e continua, e ainda por cima é exigente com quem sofreu a desgraça, isto é, não lhe permite sair como quem abandona um teatro, a não ser que o desgraçado se mate.
~ Javier Marías
Una de las características del hombre es que nunca renuncia a nada que haya probado, si lo ha probado con impunidad o con éxito, tanto da.
~ Javier Marías
A song that is sung despite everything, but that is neither silenced nor diluted once it's sung, when it's followed by the silence of adult, or perhaps I should say masculine life.
~ Javier Marías
I'm sure we'd all like to move on quickly. At the same time, I imagine it is even more important to all of us that this work. I would very much like this initiative to succeed but don't yet feel confident in my ability to pull it off. Specifically, it would help to spell out how we might answer a couple of the objections I can imagine coming our way. For example. . . .
~ Douglas Stone
We worship the Lord. We simply love, adore, and praise God's name—no matter what's going on around us. We know He will march with us to the farthest corners of the earth and to the end of the age.
~ Dr. David Jeremiah
Set your mind fully on the hope you have in Christ, and be ready to pay any price, challenge any foe, and confront any lie for the sake of the gospel.
~ Dr. David Jeremiah
Stayed on Omnipotence, safe 'neath His wing, Leave all results, do the next thing.20
~ Dr. David Jeremiah
If you can't fly, then run, if you can't walk run, then walk, if you can't walk, then crawl, but by all means keep moving.
~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
This follows his comment on much time spent in prison for freedom speeches and preaching. "I always try to do a little converting when I'm in Jail.
~ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Do Your Best, Let God Do The Rest
~ Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life's A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you'll move mountains.
~ Dr. Seuss
If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.
~ Dr. Seuss