Quotes About Perseverance

We just might make a quarterback out of you yet, you skinny little son of a bitch.

novel True Grit by Charles Portis

sometimes not quitting was all you had left.

shoulder cast climbed

If it was easy, it wouldn't be fun.

The tears were his. Tyson had earned them.

Men like Neff and Hensman lived between raindrops and worked under eaves.

of the gloom and up the middle

But adversity has a way of strengthening. If it doesn't kill you, you learn things.

Markov nodded and the steel fingers tightened into my shoulders like pliers. Alexei backhanded me with the Glock and a starburst of pain erupted from my other ear. Some days suck. Some days you shouldn't even get out of bed. I said, "Who is Clark Hewitt and why is he so important?

Yeah, well, try living with it. Getting old is hell.

Somewhere between Burger King and now, the Syrian's sleight-of-hand security system worked. Pike wasn't here. I never doubted, not once, he would find me. My task was to stay alive until it happened or I could escape on my own. The United States Army sent me to something called Ranger School. The Ranger motto was sua sponte. It meant you're on your own, asshole. Okay.

Moths swarmed around the parking lot lamps, banging into the glass with a steady tap-tap-tap, and I wondered if they welcomed the dawn. At dawn, they could stop slamming their heads into the thing that forever kept them from the light. People don't have a dawn. We just keep slamming away until it kills us.

Breathing hurt. He thought he might be bleeding to death, but he didn't have time to die. Pike

Lincoln had risen to this pinnacle through migration, self-education, and hard work.

The first recollection started as a trickle that, as soon as I attempted to block it, found another path to weep through, the way water will always bleed through concrete, no matter how many times you patch it.

All I know is, the more I rebuilt, the more I realized that just because things hadn't worked out as I'd planned didn't mean things couldn't work out at all.

The past is always the highest peak, and the hardest to scale. But when you finally pull yourself to the top and peer over the edge, there's nothing before you but the rest of your life.

Hope became something to cling to when there was nothing else but despair.

For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand.

I think we got some work done, back at the start, because nobody knew us, nobody bothered us - and we had no money.

Everyone who flees from you falls, everyone who turns to you rises, and everyone who abides in you stands. No wise person forsakes you, only the wise seek you, and no one completely finds you except the pure in heart. Those who forsake you perish. Those who love you, seek you. And those who follow you, have you.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Time always won the race.