Quotes About Perseverance

wie ein dürrer, kahler Fels steht mein zerstörtes Leben in der Brandung des Weltalls.

There have been a few small

It is by our power to suffer, above all, that we are of more value than the sparrows.

A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix.

There's nothing in this world within arm's-length of possibility that can not be done, when a man must.

If you cannot imagine pain fully, neither can you fully imagine the resources you have in you to meet it and overcome it.

Do you think you're the only one groping? We're all in the dark together. Wait until God please to clear the sky.

Where there was life, there was also hope.

And Rose would have had no time at all on the loom were it not for Widow Hautzig's rheumatism. When her rheumatism was acting up, the widow would take a long rest, sometimes even as much as a fortnight if it was a particularly bad bout. "Thank God for Widow Hautzig's rheumatism," Rose would say every night before bed. Mother once overheard her and scolded her, so Rose was careful to whisper those words to herself from then on.

but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person.

Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing from that, it became a mere battle of ugly appetites.

Sometimes life seems like a match between oneself and one's gaolors. The gaolers, of course, are one's mistakes; and the question is, who'll hold out longest? When I think of that, life instead of being too long, seems as short as a winter day....

She was like some rare flower grown for exhibition, a flower from which every bud had been nipped except the crowning blossom of her beauty.

But you'll get it back-you'll get it all back, with your face...

The world] is not a pretty place; and the only way to keep a footing in it is to fight it on its own terms - and above all, my dear, not alone!

life makes ugly faces at us sometimes, I know.

Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other's angles, he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep.

to be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

He had begun too late to subject himself to the persistent mortification of spirit and flesh which is a condition of the average business life...

Algumas mulheres são fortes o bastante para acreditarem nelas mesmas, mas eu precisei da sua ajuda para acreditar em mim. Talvez eu tenha resistido a uma grande tentação, mas foram as pequenas que acabaram me derrubando.

Chi ama le idee non è destinato a morire di fame.