Quotes about Perseverance

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.

The point was not to die, since death came anyway, but to survive, which would be a miracle.

The advantage of being lovers is that we have to work hard at our relationship, because everything conspires to drive us apart. Our decision to be together has to be renewed again and again; that keeps us on our toes.

Although stunned and hungry, many sang, because it would have been pointless to aggravate misfortune by complaining.

No one gives you anything in life, Teresa would say, you have to take it by force, and as soon as you get careless they'll take it back.

The reality is that everyone is responsible for their own life. We're dealt certain cards at birth, and we play our hand; some of us lose, but others may play skillfully from the same bad hand and triumph. Our cards determine who we are: age, gender, race, family, nationality, etc., and we can't change them, only play them to the best of our abilities. The game is marked by challenges and chances, strategizing and cheating.

Our land only rewards those who work hard in it.

The reality is that everyone is responsible for their own life. We're dealt certain cards at birth, and we play our hand; some of us lose, but others may play skillfully from the same bad hand and triumph.

I wait for you to complete the voyage into yourself, for the old wounds to heal. I know that when you return from your nightmares, we shall again walk hand in hand, as before.

All the relatives, for no one could comprehend my frustration at having spent two years scratching the earth to make my fortune with no other goal than that of one day leading this girl to the altar, and death had stolen her away from me.

I have lived in a rough sea where waves would lift me and then drop me to the bottom.