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Quotes About Persistence

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
~ John Burroughs
Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.
~ Joshua Chamberlain
As General Eisenhower discovered, it is easier to end the Cold War or stamp out poverty than to master this devilish pastime.
~ James Reston, Jr.
When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.
~ Max Brooks
There are no unwinnable wars.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.
~ Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now
I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Most wars are not won in a single battle.
~ Ted Cruz
I followed the war wherever I could reach it.
~ Martha Gellhorn
In peace, continue your art; in war, continue your art; in freedom, continue your art; in captivity, continue your art!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The war of attrition against the Zionist enemy will never cease.
~ Yasser Arafat
Do not think of defeat if the battle is not won yet
~ Jordache Wee
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt...
~ Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Trouble cannot be avoided, you either go looking for it or it will come looking for you.
~ Constance Friday
Whatever the challenge, never quit, never give up, never surrender.
~ Charles M. Grist
War is like a fire - if you do not put it out, it will burn itself out.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Remember if it's not happy then it's not the end so babe keep fighting, you'll win this war.
~ Paola Marie M.
No matter how long you behest, to the fruit draped tree. It will do you no best, until a shingle you free.
~ Shahzad Ashraf
Victory will not go to those who can inflict the most suffering, but to those who can survive the most.
~ CrimethInc., Contradictionary
Surviving Is the only warWe can afford
~ Margaret Atwood
General Taylor never surrenders.
~ Thomas L. Crittenden
'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
~ Karl Marlantes
In the end, it's all about perseverance.
~ Dean Koontz