Quotes About Persistence

you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.

no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it.

I will not stop vibrating. The wind will not stop blowing. You will not stop drawing.

I told you that if you are going to do something, son. You need to do it with all of your heart. You have something you didn't have before. Hope. You've defeated one of them. They can be beaten.

aunque yo no hubiera venido. Un hombre solo puede dar tumbos durante un tiempo hasta que se cae o se endereza.

Cats don't stop hunting because they're full, Tress. They're like people in that regard.

So, we came all this way," Wyndle said, "and tracked the most dangerous man we've ever met, merely so you could steal his breakfast.

Defiant to the end. For all the good it had done

I have to keep moving. Keep working. Don't let the pain take control.

man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

La fe… Recordó una voz del pasado. Su propia voz, hablándole a Vin aquel terrible día tras la muerte de Kelsier. La fe no es solo para los bellos momentos y los días felices. ¿Qué es creer, qué es la fe si no persistes en ella después del fracaso?

We'll do it. Somehow we'll make them listen - even if they got their fingers planted firmly in their ears. Makes one wonder how they manage it, with their heads rammed up their own backsides.

As any problem to overcome is merely a set of smaller problems to overcome in a sequence

But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.

Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after failure?...Anyone can believe in someone, or something that always succeeds...But failure...ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value. Sometimes we just have to wait long enough...then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing...There's always another secret.

The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step, Dalinar.

To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.

When you shoot a lot you stand a better chance, but then you are subjecting yourself to the law of accident?if accident has a law. I prefer to try and if necessary fail. When I succeed, however, I am much happier than I would be if I shot a million pictures on the off-chance. I feel that I have really made it myself, that picture, not won it in a lottery.

I will fight untill the end

I will go on until the end

Why give give up? Why give in?

Why Give Up? Why Give In

Those who are weak don't fight. Those who are stronger might fight for an hour. Those who are stronger still might fight for many years. The strongest fight their whole life. They are the indispensable ones.

Well, when everybody's going this way, it's time to turn around and go that way, you know? ... I don't care if they end up shitting gold nuggets, somebody's got to dig in the damn ground. Somebody's got to.