Quotes About Perseverance

Skulduggery? Where's Skulduggery?" "I'm here," Skulduggery said. "I was beginning to think you were lost to us." Finbar's mouth twitched into a brief smile. "Sorry. You're not going to get rid of me so easily.

I swear, Skulduggery, you either give me a straight answer or I'm finding the biggest dog you've ever seen and I'm going to make him dig a hole and bury you in it.

It is I, and I stand with the girl, the Elemental and the partner of the skeleton detective, and although she is late she is here, which is the important thing, and we are moving on.

Ghastly and Anton have been murdered. Ravel's betrayed us. Valkyrie is... gone. The Dead Men have had their last stand and we've fallen, Saracen. The three of us are all that remain. - Skulduggery

She wasn't going to let the voice win today. She wasn't going to let all those bad feelings come crashing down on her, like they had so many times in the past. She was getting better.

The thought has occurred to me that maybe you'll only start flying when you absolutely need to,

Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done.

There is no such thing as winning or losing. There is won and there is lost ; there is victory and defeat. There are no absolutes. Everything inbetween is left to fight for.

We all go through tough times." "My parents are trying to kill me." "We all have issues.

Hey, Nemesis, if you're going to kill me, then kill me. Otherwise, I've got stuff to do.

matter how sharp the corner they turned or how deep the pothole they plunged into, Ghastly and Tanith remained perfectly still. Fletcher, on the other hand, was being thrown about like an old shoe in a washing machine, and he did not appreciate it.

In that movie, Mr Miyagi has Daniel doing all these mundane tasks like painting the fence and waxing the car, then later Daniel does the same moves and finds out it's kung fu. You have me doing all of these fighting moves... If I find out later that what you're actually doing is teaching me how to paint fences and wax cars, I'm not paying you, you understand? - Scapegrace

Things happen, Valkyrie, but life carries on regardless of how we feel.

The Dead Men have had their last stand and we've fallen. The three of us are all that remain.

I can get us past them," Sanguine said, "but I'd probably be better going alone." Donegan frowned. "That's uncharacteristically brave of you." "Not at all. Lugging you idiots around would slow me down and get me killed.

I can't let your groin stand between me and saving lives.

There's no such thing as winning or losing. There is a wo and a lost; there is victory and defeat. There are absolutes. Everything in-between is still left to fight for.

I impressed them by attacking an entire battalion of Mevolent's troops on my own." "You slipped," said Shudder. "Stop saying that. I did not slip." "I was there. You slipped and fell down the hill and rolled into their camp." "Aggressively. I rolled aggressively into their camp." "I had to save you." "Why do you always say it like that?

If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

With every word, I drop knowledge. I'm a diamond in the rough, a shiny piece of coal trying to reach my goal.

Condition and guts take over where knowledge and skill end.

Frustration begins where knowledge ends

Knowing that you have working with you a force, which never yet has failed in anything it has undertaken, you can go ahead in the confident knowledge that it will not fail in your case, either.