Quotes About Perseverance

Para valer la pena, una vida debe ser digna de contarse, me digo cada vez que me va mal, porque ya sé que los destinos torcidos se parecen a la rueda de la fortuna. No importa qué tan arriba o abajo estés, de todos modos vas a dar la vuelta.

Leaders must always set the highest standard. In a summer campaign, leaders must always endure their share of the sun and the heat and, in winter, the cold and the frost. In all labors, leaders must prove tireless if they want to enjoy the trust of their followers.

Men, the enemy troops you can see are all that stands between us and the place we have for so long been determined to reach. We must find a way to eat them alive!

It was the same feeling I had when I first got to Britain. How many times could one restart a life? "I read that in China, people will transplant large number of trees and bring them to the newly developed cities. Chinese people seem to be very adaptable, like the trees." You were trying to comfort me. "Yes, but once the trees grew older, you can't transplant them again. The roots are too embedded into the ground.

At least you're still learning a lot. Even if everything is broken.

This was Beijing. A city that never showed its gentle side. You'd die if you didn't fight with it, and there was no end to the fight. Beijing was a city for Sisyphus—you could push and push and push, but ultimately that stone was bound to roll back on you.

The road is not difficult because of rivers or mountains. It is difficult because of your fear of the rivers and mountains.

Dost ve dü?man herkes bilsin ki kazanaca??z. Mutlaka kazanaca??z!

I suspect the only reason I've been able to go on writing is that I've had your heart by my side all along. — Y?ko Ogawa, The Memory Police , transl. Stephen Snyder (Pantheon, 2019)

We made the zero, through great pain and struggle.

Having written this phrase, I set down my pencil. My new novel wasn't going very well. I seemed to be writing in circles, going backward, or running into dead ends, with no idea what should come next. Still, I often encountered this sort of writer's block, and I no longer took much notice of it.

Life isn't going to be easier, nor is anyone going to make a fortune, just because they know something about prime numbers.

At first, I was conscious of wanting to please the Professor, but gradually that feeling faded and I realized it had become a battle between the problem and me.

Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else.

Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film.

Though u have seen many, but u haven't yet seen enough. The good work always pays wonderfully

The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.

I'm going to—uhhh!

I have found that lived out, the hardest place to be a Christian is to be in a nice prosperous country with a lot of entertainment options because there?s so many distractions.

I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

You might think I lost all hope at that point. I did. And as a result I perked up and felt much better.

If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.