Quotes About Perseverance

Also, I was beginning to tire of waiting for the lightning. If it was going to strike, let it strike.

Robert Jordan

Nynaeve al'Meara was what, back in Seanchan, one would call a telarti—a woman with fire in her soul.

Knowing what he had to do, even getting on with it, did not stop him being afraid.

The sweetness of victory and the bitterness of defeat are alike a knife of dreams

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect. Hold on to your heart

Finally the gleeman seemed to tire of hearing him say "I will do what I must," and stopped coming. It seemed that he did not want to compose his epic unless it could be full of pained emotion. The man looked frustrated when he stalked off for the last time, cloak fluttering furiously behind him.

But hope is like a piece of string when you're drowning; it just isn't enough to get you out by itself.

No woman with grit could give up when she had children

For him to be in this condition almost robbed Rand of what courage he had managed to gather. But he had to keep on. That was all that kept him moving. He had to.

Asl?nda insanlar asla deÄŸiÅŸmiyordu, ama dünya rahats?z edici ölçüde düzenli bir biçimde deÄŸiÅŸiyordu. Bu gerçekle yaÅŸamay? öÄŸrenmek zorundayd?n?z ya da en az?ndan o gerçeÄŸin içinde canl? kalmay?. Zaman zaman, ÅŸans?n?z varsa, deÄŸiÅŸimlerin yönünü etkileyebilirdiniz, ama bir tanesini durdursan?z bile bir baÅŸkas?n? harekete geçirmiÅŸ olurdunuz.

The whole world rides on your shoulders. Remember you're a man, and do what needs to be done.

We all wake from the dream one day," Gaul said gently, "but if she still dreams, we will find her. But if Aiel took her, we must go. They will move quickly. Even in . . . this." He put considerable disgust in the word, kicking at a clod of snow.

The only thing to do, as it had been from the beginning, was to keep moving. Keep moving, and not think. Thinking was dangerous, he knew.

Lan shook his head slightly. "He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead." Moiraine nodded. Surrender after you are dead. Yes.

Well, Mat thought, guess I can take that. For now.

In the Borderlands, her people had a saying: "Only the Dark One stays the same." Men grew and progressed; the Shadow just remained as it was. Evil.

Adalet arayan bir adam?n kararl?l??? hafife al?nacak, görmezden gelinecek bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir. Bununla birlikte, kendini bir kenara koyup daha önemli ÅŸeyleri görmenin de bir zaman? vard?r.

different company. He was not sure how Egwene felt, but he would have been willing to go hungry if he could do it without the wolves. Three days, into the afternoon.

We can't go back, Mat. The Wheel has turned, for better or worse. And it will keep on turning, as lights die and forests dim, storms call and skies break. Turn it will. The Wheel is not hope, and the Wheel does not care, the Wheel simply is. But so long as it turns, folk may hope, folk may care. For with light that fades, another will eventually grow, and each storm that rages must eventually die. As long as the Wheel turns. As long as it turns. . . .

A man is more than one drive, one goal. No woman wants that in a man. It seems to me that men who spend time making something of themselves—rather than professing their devotion—are the ones who get somewhere. Both with women, and with life itself.

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyways." —The Eye of the World

On the heights, the paths are paved with daggers.

People never really changed, yet the world did, with disturbing regularity. You just had to live with it, or at least live through it.