Quotes About Perseverance

So much is learned by seeing how well or how poorly someone accomplishes a job he dislikes.

Believe your pain.' This awful bear hug is no mistake. Nothing that disturbs you is. Remember all along that there is no embrace in this world that won't finally unclasp.

Painted by a gentle dawn one is proud that like one's own planet now one will not wince at what one is facing, since putting up with nothing whose company we cannot lose hardens rocks and -rather fast- hearts as well. But rocks will last.

And wagged our shaven heads, in that place where men spit on floors -- where sometimes we are given fish to eat, but never knife or fork to eat it with.

We have, all of us, more reasons for staying than for marching. What's the point in marching if you are only going to catch up with a very sad tune?

this is not the time to become lost in sorrow. We must do something and not just wait to be victims.

Waiting is something you get used to when you're Native American.

So, when all of our people did not stop raiding, the Americans made war on all of the Navajos. They burned our crops, killed our livestock, and cut down our peach trees. They drove our people into exile. They sent us on the Long Walk.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or the highroad to the soul's destination.

He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.

How teach again, however, what has been taught correctly and incorrectly learned a thousand thousand times, throughout the millenniums of mankind's prudent folly? That is the hero's ultimate difficult task.

I had to climb a mountain. There were all kinds of obstacles in the way. I had now to jump over a ditch, now to get over a hedge, and finally to stand still because I had lost my breath. This was the dream of a stutterer.

Marriage . . . is not a love affair; it is an ordeal. (92)

You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.

It is, indeed, very little that we need! But lacking that, the adventure into the labyrinth is without hope.

Not all who hesitate are lost.

Where you stumble, there your treasure lies.

É descendo até o abismo que recuperamos os tesouros da vida. Onde voce tropeça, ali está seu tesouro.

Where your pain is, there is your life, you might say.

we wouldn't ask why a rose with damaged petals

It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.

Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!" said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.