Quotes About Perseverance

que no importa cuán listos seamos, a veces nos toca perder, [...]

Aprendí, muy pequeña que la vida tiene un lado oscuro, y que ése me había tocado a mi

A Osvaldo le pasó lo que a todos, que nos creemos el cuento de que nos va a ir bien en la vida.

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.

Hay una dignidad en la derrota que a duras penas le corresponde a la victoria.

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.

Upstream, Arkansas and Ohio have their bottomlands, too, populated by a jaundiced and hungry-looking race, prone to fevers, whose eyes gleam at the sight of stone and iron, for they know only sand and driftwood and muddy water.

Day and night, their frail and crippled ships defy the tempest.

Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one's art. One must accept it. For this reason I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliations, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform, so that we may make from the miserable circumstances of our lives things that are eternal, or aspire to be so.

El tiempo no rehace lo que perdemos, la eternidad lo guarda para la gloria y también para el fuego.

La derrota tiene una dignidad que la ruidosa victoria no merece

No sé cuántos días y noches rodaron sobre mí. Doloroso, incapaz de recuperar el abrigo de las cavernas, desnudo en la ignorada arena, dejé que la luna y el sol jugaran con mi aciago destino.

es menos duro sobrellevar un acontecimiento espantoso que imaginarlo y aguardarlo sin fin

has gastado los años y te han gastado, y todavía no has escrito el poema.

Nulla si edifica sulla pietra, tutto sulla sabbia, ma noi dobbiamo edificare come se la sabbia fosse pietra.

Éste es el final de la historia de los cuarenta y siete hombres leales —salvo que no tiene final, porque los otros hombres, que no somos leales tal vez, pero que nunca perderemos del todo la esperanza de serlo, seguiremos honrándolos con palabras.

LAS TRES LECCIONES DE DESMOND TUTU La primera lección es fundamental: saber que vas a ganar. Tutu está convencido de que la injusticia no puede ser algo permanente. Esta convicción de que la justicia se puede alcanzar permitió a Mandela sobrevivir durante veintisiete años en la cárcel

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

keep on following, waiting our chance

Build it all up, and it all falls down. It all burns down. Everything you need can be taken. Remember that, nieces. Everything you hold dear, it can be taken.