Quotes About Perseverance

That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

Aunque es tarde, es noche, y tú no puedes. Canta como si no pasara nada.

Que no me vean caída. Muerta por dentro, pero de pie. Como un árbol.

Que no me vean caida. Muerta por dentro, pero de pie. Como un árbol.

ABUELO.—Me decía Telva que te andaban rondando no sé qué ideas tristes por la cabeza. ADELA.—Bah, tonterías. Pequeñas cosas, que una misma agranda porque a veces da gusto llorar sin saber por qué.

No, no tenga miedo por mí. Yo me he acercado a la muerte, y he visto ya que no resuelve nada; que todos los problemas hay que resolverlos de pie.

Los hombres nobles eluden un esfuerzo realizando otro mucho mayor. Por no arrancar una rosa, construyen un palacio. Por no escuchar un reproche, ejercen la rectitud toda la vida. Por no bajarse del caballo, conquistan el Asia.

I am a victim. To be an artist is to be a victim, because if you don't do what you want to do you die. That is the reality.

Il pigro - Sapendo di essere nato per dare origine ad una farfalla, mentre gli altri si rinchiudevano in laboriosi e oscuri bozzoli, il verme si mise a saltare il più in alto possibile, credendo che così facendo avrebbe fatto uscire le ali con più facilità

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

El topo es un animal que cava galerías bajo la tierra buscando el sol y a veces su camino lo lleva a la superficie: cuando ve el sol, queda ciego.

Solas? —pregunta a nadie. Pasan unos segundos. El mar rompe ahora con más fuerza contra las rocas, más abajo. Mamá habla de nuevo sin girarse. Al mar. A Helena. —Enfermas sí. Desquiciadas también. Y rotas. Los cirros se deslizan sobre el solo poniente. La luz es naranja, granate, preciosa. —Solas no. Al menos hasta que yo muera, niñas. No quiero volver a oíros decir eso nunca más. A ninguna. Nunca —termina con firmeza.

Ma, sai, se c'è una cosa che la vita mi ha insegnato è che aspettare ciò che non accadrà mai è una morte troppo orribile.

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you Submit to your grief -- your time for joy will come, believe me.

Right now, it didn't look good, the life. What doesn't kill you makes you horny.

I know as well as anybody how hard it is to live after a grave loss. But life needs to go on, it must never stop. It is our duty to keep life going.

There are people who just live and there are people who just survive," Bega had said. "Americans live, we survive.

Addressing the problem required standing up and shoving his hand into his pants to free his testicles from the grip of his underwear. He was not ready for such a commitment, so he endured. The mind can imagine nothing except while the body endures.

Everyone is afraid. But one person falls to pieces from fear, and another person keeps it together. You see: fear remains the same for everyone, but the ability to bear it increases with practice; that is where brave men and heroes come from.

A strong desire derives a person straight through the hardest rock.