Quotes About Perseverance

The worst thing that you can do for yourself is to sit back and do nothing. You're stronger than you realize.

My mom always told me that the one thing that people make fun of you for when you're little, will be the one thing they'll respect you for when you get older.

La fortune, comme l,infortune, est une épreuve, et notre vocation est de la surmonter. (p.315)

I had a little light. I blew on it, trying to turn it into a torch, but I blew a bit too hard and put it out.

Quelle que soit l'ampleur des dégâts, aucun cataclysme n'empêchera la Terre de tourner.

Run after her… One day, man will surely be able to catch a comet, but all the glories of this world will not console the man who allows the real opportunity in his life to slip away.

Ressaisis-toi, bonhomme. Il n'y a q'un seul dieu sur terre, et c'est toi. Si le monde ne te convient pas, réinventes-en un autre, et ne laisse aucun chagrin te faire descendre de ton nuage. La vie sourit toujours à celui qui sait lui rendre la monnaie de sa pièce.

prends femme, Younes. seul l'amour est capable de nous venger des coups bas de la vie. et souvient toi, si une femme t'aimait aucune étoile ne se mettrait hors de ta porté, aucune divinité ne t'arrivera à la cheville

Celui qui se relève de ses faux pas aura gagné l'estime des dieux. De toutes les couleurs qu'on lui en a fait voir, il construira un arc-en-ciel.

Thy can take everything you own --your property, your best years, all your joys, all your good works, everything down to your last shirt --but you'll always have your dreams, so you can reinvent your stolen world.

They can take everything you own --your property, your best years, all your joys, all your good works, everything down to your last shirt-- but you'll always have your dreams, so you can reinvent your stolen world.

The can take everything you own- your property, your best years, all your joys, all your good works, everything down to your last shirt- but you'll always have your dreams, so you can reinvent your stolen world.

Misery is a dead end that stops at a brick wall. If you want to escape it, you must back out carefully, never taking your eyes off the wall. That way, it looks as though the wall is receding.

VÅ¡echno ti m?žou vzít: majetek, nejkrásnÄ›jÅ¡í léta, vÅ¡echny radosti, vÅ¡echny zásluhy, i poslední koÅ¡ili - nikdo ti ale nem?že vzít tvé sny, a s nimi budeÅ¡ moci znovu vytvoÃ…â"¢it svÄ›t, o který tÄ› pÃ…â"¢ipravili.

On peut tout te prendre ; tes biens, tes plus belles années, l'ensemble de tes joies, et l'ensemble de tes mérites, jusqu'à ta dernière chemise – il te restera toujours tes rêves pour réinventer le monde que l'on t'a confisqué.

Alors j'avance, contre vents et marées, j'avance parce qu'il ne faut pas céder au désespoir, parce qu'il faut savoir faire d'une épreuve une raison de la surmonter.

Isabelle had the patience of those who believe that tomorrow belongs to them.

Go about your work with a quiet confidence that cannot be shake...No matter what happens, remember if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you can move mountains.' (Ducky Drake, UCLA Track Coach)

The time was ordinary, 24 seconds, but the victory was historic. From that crowded little red house in Clarksville, out of an extended family of twenty-two kids, from a childhood of illness and leg braces, out of a small historically black college that had no scholarships, from a country where she could be hailed as a heroine and yet denied lunch at a counter, Skeeter had become golden, sweeping the sprints in Rome.

Tolstoy's wife copied out the entire manuscript of War and Peace in longhand seven times.

A new planting is like having another child, requiring patience and sacrifice and a resounding optimism for the future

To be a writer - write! To be an author - publish! To be a bestselling author - never stop writing!

God can create roads where we see only obstacles.

A large oak tree is just a little nut that refused to give up.