Quotes About Perseverance

A man can do only what a man can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

Die Liebe stirbt meistens and den kleinen Fehlern, die man am Anfang so entzückend findet.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

The greatest challenge in art is in dealing with disappointment.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll any stones out of his way, and must calmly accept his lot even if they roll a few more into it.

Wer sich vornimmt, Gutes zu wirken, darf nicht erwarten, dass die Menschen ihm deswegen Steine aus dem Weg räumen, sondern muss auf das Schicksalshafte gefasst sein, dass sie ihm welche daraufrollen.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

Crossing over from Mexico to the United States was a big step, but that part was easy. Big things are like that--easy to identify, and, with a deep breath, done all at once. As life turned out, it was the small that was difficult. The small things--which is all the opposite of what one might think.

Es la historia de las mariposas, Martín; las que no mueren, conservan para siempre las señales del fuego que les quemó las alas - Rafael san Luis

I'm in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren't, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I'm not there in an instant. (6/20/1919)

Dignity cannot wait for better times.

A veces para salir adelante debes hacerte tira por dentro.

For the working man there is no abyss...that's why he jumps.

El amor propio es una bestia curiosa que puede dormir aun bajo los golpes más crueles; y luego se despierta, en cambio , herido de muerte por un simple rasguño.

De la misma forma que una barra de hierro sometida a una llamapersistente se ablanda y dobla, sentía entonces que el metal de mi ánimo era gradualmenteablandado y doblado por las angustias que lo oprimían.

Trust me, my runners aren't going to run one event while looking past it to the second event. When they get on the line for the 10K, that's a do-or-die situation for them.

graba nu scurteaz? drumul, ci îl face doar mai obositor.

Es ist uns nicht erlaubt uns fortzustehlen, mag uns ein Gott, mag uns ein Teufel quälen.

Resolve to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

He who hopes for spring with upturned eye never sees so small a thing as Draba. He who despairs of spring with downcast eye steps on it, unknowing. He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when one can cast his eye upon the hills and see hard-boiled farmers who have spent their lives destroying land now carrying water by hand to their new plantations