Quotes About Perseverance

Hopelessness in a worthy cause is no excuse for abandoning it. My race fought without hope for many generations … then hope appeared. You and yours may do the same.

Without Gay, without her ability to do a Drunkard's Walk, we could have searched that planet for a lifetime, and never found either colony.

heard Prof say, "Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.

But plenty of money (how well I knew it!) made hard things easy and impossible things merely difficult.

The Scientologists, of course, have had to fight for their rights many times;

Women are more rugged than men; they have to be.

When it is time for growth, the old ways and the old habits must welcome the new. The old way seems to hinder the new growth at every point, but if you persevere, this way will bring a new consciousness to birth.

You see, my love. As you've always said, after the rain- Sun. After the darkness- Light. And after the illness- Health. Exactly, said the Tsar. We mustn't give up faith.

For very long periods I am really patient, and then out breaks my bad temper. It is not so difficult to bear great trials, but these little buzzing mosquitos are so trying.

Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation over and see if there's a doorway somewhere. I think most people eventually do look for the doorway and stop bumping into the wall

Nothing is too heavy to be knocked on its ass, and everything is cool, baby. --Hassan i Sabbah X

Pessimism is for lightweights There is no straight white line It's the bumps and curves and obstacles That make this road yours and mine Pessimism is for lightweights This road is never easy or straight And living is all about living alive and lively And love will conquer hate

The whole speed scene is pretty sad. Some go through a period where they get stuck in the same fantasies over and over again. The trip can take several years, but there are a lot of people who have been through it and finally come out the other side. It doesn't seem to have the lifelong addictive properties of heroin.

Tough is what you do, more than it is how you feel about it before or after," I said. "You're tough enough.

Who is he?" "Jiminy Cricket," I said. "He hangs around to make

Quirk was still staring out the window. "I'm trying to keep hold of this thing," he said. "The guy isn't going to stop and

Stop the whining and get to work!

Being tough means looking straight at something ugly, and saying, That's ugly; I'll have to find a way to deal with it. And doing so.

When I'm stuck," Healy said, "I go over it." "All of it," Jesse said. "Start at page one of my notebook and go page by page all the way through.

Perhaps the one absolute essential to growing up well is being tough enough," Susan said. "Like us," I said.

Hawk looked at Tony without speaking. He had three gunshot wounds and still could barely stand, but

When in doubt do something; and hope that if you keep doing it you'll come to understand what it is.

he gets turned down oftener than the lamp in the parlor of a sailor's girlfriend.