Quotes About Perseverance

Jeanne M. Lee

And I don't think anybody ever gets over loss. I think you get through it. You let it get through you.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.

Things usually work out in the end." "What if they don't?" "That just means you haven't come to the end yet.

Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Once you'd resolved to go, there was nothing to it at all.

Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.

Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.

Mama, what kept you moving forward through droughts, wild animals, loneliness? We had no choice. Sadness was as dangerous as panthers and bears. The wilderness needs your whole attention.

pek küstahca konu?tunuz. Zafer Tanr?'n?n onu bah?etti?i ki?inin olacakt?r." Noyan Baycu

Simplement, nous ne nous résignons pas à renoncer aux promesses que l'enfance nous a faites.

In the fight between you and reality, be discouraging.

It was difficult, but I managed. When I had money, I'd buy film and we'd shoot. I think your first film should be made with your own blood. [On producing his first full length film, Le Silence de la Mer (1949) himself]

There's a fine line between stubbornness and the positive side of that, which is dogged determination.

Most people, upon reaching the top, look down and enjoy the view. The smart money is on looking up and finding new mountains to climb.

My feet have several thousand meetings scheduled with the dirt on a trail not far from here. Who am I to keep them waiting? Time to run.

Daily I learn — sometimes painfully, other times with glee — that mine is a path never meant to be paved.

I'm not saying you can live with it, I'm saying

She doesn't get to be a healer because the gods bestow powers upon her, but through the prolonged, rigorous, all-consuming struggle of her own self-healing.

I know he is--sensitive--on some points, Detective, but you must bear in mind how hard it is for an honest man to do his work in relative obscurity, while dishonest men attain wealth and renown. That is why corruption is so pernicious. It breaks the will of good men.

I'm sympathetic with new writers who focus so much on the beginning. That's what you show friends or beta readers to see if you are just wasting your time or if there's something there. But you won't really know until you finish the whole book.

I believe in writing somewhat quickly, getting the story down; it can be bad, it can be a mess, but the key thing is to get it down.

There is a time on every job where you say, Screw caution. I'm not foolhardy. I'm not stupid. But sometimes you have to be the battering ram.