Quotes About Perseverance

Once your heart and mind are shattered, eternity's not so scary.

I get through some print.

it's life... In all its granite hardness.

I've always been a reader; no matter what else I've lost, I hung on to that.

You'd test the patience of a saint.

Dennis Wheatley

When you've lost everything, you've got nothing to lose.

He forced himself to take a single step forward; and once he had done that the second was a little less difficult, and the third was almost easy.

man thought he could fly, so he jumped off the top of a ten-story building, and as he fell past the fifth floor, flapping his arms uselessly in the air, he was heard to say: 'So far, so good.

Quien correr se propone a caer se dispone.»

Human beings have the capacity to rise above mundane circumstances and touch the eternal.

He had heard that people who had the toes chopped off one foot could not stand up, but fell over constantly until they learned to walk again. He felt like that, as if part of him had been amputated, and he could not get used to the idea that it was gone forever.

A man thought he could fly, so he jumped off the top of a ten-storey building, and as he fell past the fifth floor, flapping his arms uselessly in the air, he was heard to say: So far, so good.

She had always liked what Scarlett O'Hara said in Gone with the Wind: I'll think about it tomorrow. Not anymore.

It was a bold request, but she hated delay: an hour turned into a day, and a day turned into a week, and bright ideas died from lack of oxygen.

A man thought he could fly, so he jumped off the top of a ten-story building, and as he fell past the fifth floor, flapping his arms uselessly in the air, he was heard to say: 'So far, so good.

If you're going to have a fight, you might as well fight for what you really want.

A country is mostly the people in it," Maud said. "I don't love England. My parents died a long time ago, and my brother has disowned me. I love Germany. For me, Germany is my wonderful husband, Walter; my misguided son, Erik; my alarmingly capable daughter, Carla; our maid, Ada, and her disabled son; my friend Monika and her family; my journalistic colleagues . . . I'm staying, to fight the Nazis.

Jesus is always with you, even down the pit." At the time he had thought she was just telling him to behave well. But she had been wiser than that. Of course Jesus was with him. Jesus was everywhere. The darkness did not matter, nor the passage of time.

A family of Jews were showing their tickets at the head of the gangplank. All Jews wanted to go to America, in Grigori's experience. They had even more reason than he did. In Russia there were laws forbidding them to own land, to enter the civil service, to be army officers, and countless other prohibitions. They could not live where they liked, and there were quotas limiting the number who could go to universities. It was a miracle any of them made a living.

Cuántos años pueden algunas personas vivir, antes de que se les permita ser libres?»

A pesar de las dificultades y frustraciones de hoy y del mañana, aún tengo un sueño

Solo te pido una cosa —insistió—, no puedes perder la esperanza.

prométeme que nunca te rendirás. Nunca.