Quotes About Perseverance

This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?

Call me old-fashioned," Deepak said, "but I've always believed that hard work pays off. My version of the Beatitudes. Do the right thing, put up with unfairness, selfishness, stay true to yourself... one day it all works out. Of course, I don't know that people who wronged you suffer or get their just deserts. I don't think it works that way . But I do think that one day you get your reward.

Do they listen?" He held up a finger. "Every year one does," he said, ginning, "But that one makes it worthwhile. Even Jesus only did twelve. I try to get one a year.

I have been bent and broken but I hope into better shape.

What a journey...what a day...what madness, so much worse than tragic! What to do except dance, dance, only dance...

Why must I do what is hardest?" "Because, Marion, you are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?

Surgery was the most difficult thing I could imagine. And so I became a surgeon.

The master-word is Work, a little one, as I have said, but fraught with momentous sequences if you can but write it on the tablets of your hearts, and bind it upon your foreheads.

This is my life, I thought...I have exised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mudstained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?

I welcomed my slavish existence as a surgical resident, the never-ending work, the cries that kept me in the present, the immersion in blood, pus, and tears -- the fluids in which one dissolved all traces of self. In working myself ragged, I felt integrated...

I saw that vigil now as necessary, a prerequisite for my insides to harden and cure just like the willow of a cricket bat must cure to be ready for a lifetime of knocks.

Do the right thing, put up with unfairness, selfishness, stay true to yourself...one day it all works out.

Being the first born gives you great patience.

it the bloody-brinjal-and-bugger-all. Which is

she found her greatness, at last, found it in her suffering. Once you have greatness, who needs anything else?

all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for

He had become my poster boy, a walking testament to how will and belief can make up for lack of muscle, how anger can overcome blindness.

Screw your courage to the sticking place." - Lady MacBeth

Men like him became stubborn with opposition, because their convictions were all they had.

As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others.

She remembered, too, how in her first days in Addis, when things had looked so bleak, so terrifying, so tragic with Melly's death—it was at those moments that God's grace came, and that God's plan was revealed, though it was revealed in His time. "I can't see it, Lord, but I know You can

I am so behind that yesterday catches up with tomorrow.

Find your backbone, or be swallowed whole.

his oar into water that is as thick and angry as boiling paddy.