Quotes About Perseverance

Sometimes you just have to take a leap of faith, tune out what you see before you, what other people tell you, and focus on what you know deep down inside your own heart.

While appearing weak is okay, giving in to weakness is definitely not.

All you can do is give it your best shot. That's all anyone can ever ask of you.

That's the thing about the horizon. Every step leads you toward it, but you can never quite reach it. But maybe that's a good thing? Maybe it's nature's way of reminding us to never give up--to always keep striving.

Because if each step brings us to the next, then how will we ever get anywhere, how can we ever grow if we avoid everything that might hurt us?

beast may be alive and well, but my heart and soul are now leading.

This day's gone from really bad, to extremely bad and it's a long way from over.

And this too shall pass. Though

There was so much she could not control, but sewing a path through the darkness, how could that not be good?

Like my mama tells me all the time, sometimes you just gotta be brave.

no es necesario nacer en la buena vida para llegar a tener una.

People with menial jobs conjure up what Nietzsche calls a background world, forcing themselves to believe in an earthly or heavenly paradise. Their mental Eden is as seductive as their job is repugnant.

La vieillesse est un naufrage. Mais je n'ai pas envie de voir couler le bateau.

Tra il suicidio e la traspirazione non esitare. Versare il proprio sangue è ammirevole quanto è immondo versare il proprio sudore.

Es más fácil morir que vivir, ésa es la razón por la que viviré por ti, amor mío.

Cualquiera que viva un infierno durable o pajero puede, para enfrentarse a él, recurrir a la técnica mental más gratificantes de cuantas existen: contarse un cuento.

Elle se transforma en une créature désenchantée dont l'obsession fut de ne pas sombrer dans le gouffre que cette situation avait creusé en elle.

As she went on with her labour, she became aware that she had Schubert's Erl-King going around in her head. It wasn't the ideal music for the job. Normally, Pannonique programmed her brain to play symphonies that have her the energy indispensable for such physical labour-Saint-Saens, Dvorak-but now that heart-rending Lied stuck in her skull and sapped her strength.

C'était donc cela, le sens, la raison d'être de toute une vie : si l'on était là, si l'on tolérait tant d'épreuves, si l'on faisait l'effort de continuer à respirer, si l'on acceptait tant de fadeur, c'était pour connaître l'amour.

I always tell people, I'm a better swimmer because I'm a mom and a better mom because I'm swimmer.

We'd run out of coke but not out of time.

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look after our people.

Experiencing criticism definitely makes you a little weaker at times, but in the end, it's made me a lot stronger. It's made me have conviction about something that I can stand for. It's made me want to fight for something.