#perseverance

.... it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#hardship #perseverance #solitude #nature

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#perseverance #perseverance

It's not about what you're capable of, it's about what you are willing to endure. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#perseverance #persistence #persistence

Maxim 10: Sometimes the only way out is through... through the hull. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries ↗

— Howard Tayler

#rules-to-live-by #sci-fi #ship #subverted-saying #violence

To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by. ↗

— Stephen Baker

#brute #brute force #cat #come #conviction

Keep passing the open windows. ↗

— John Irving

#perseverance #suicide #love

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success. ↗

— Tanya Tucker

#burning #burning desire #desire #going #having

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong. – Bill W. ↗

— Bill W.

#habit #honesty #patience #perseverance #self-examination

Weel, ma´am' said Stephen, making the best of it, with a smile; 'when I ha´finished off, I mun quit this part, and try another. Fortnet or misfortnet, a man can but try; there´s now to be done wi´out tryin -cept laying down and dying. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#life #perseverance #life

I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God. ↗

— Saint Patrick

#faithfulness #loyalty #perseverance #faith