Quotes about Perseverance
You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience. Keep your head up, keep your shoulders back, keep your self-respect, be nice, be smart. And remember that there are practically no overnight successes.
— Lucille Ball
Already a congressman, to a mentor I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
— Madeleine Albright
Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
— Madeleine L'Engle
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Itt iss Eevill… What is going to happen? Wee wwill cconnttinnue tto ffightt!… And we're not alone, you know, children, came Mrs.Whatsit, the comforter. …some of the best fighters have come from your own planet… Who have our fighters been? Calvin asked. Oh, you must know them, dear, Mrs.Whatsit said. Mrs.Who's spectacles shone out at them triumphantly. And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
— Madeleine L'Engle
But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometimes there is a sudden and fierce squall. But I know that many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Stay angry, little Meg," Mrs Whatsit whispered. "You will need all your anger now.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Nothing loved is ever lost or perished.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.
— Madeleine L'Engle
you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.
— Madeleine L'Engle