Quotes About Perseverance

You lost concentration," Lan told him. "You must hold on to that even when your muscles turn to water. Lose it, and that is the day you die. And it will probably be a farmboy who has his hands on a sword for the first time who does it." His smile was sudden, odd on that stony face.

Peace is far off yet,' he said softly. 'It will be blood and death for some time to come.' 'It always is,' Bashere replied quietly, and Rand did not know which statement he was speaking to. Perhaps both.

Women do not become exhausted," Haman said

It seemed to Rand like years since there had not been firewood to split. But complaining would not keep the house warm, so he fetched the axe, propped up bow and quiver beside the chopping block, and got to work. Pine for a quick, hot flame, and oak for long burning.

Courage is a well,' Viendre said at Elayne's ear, 'deep in some, shallow in others. Deep or shallow, wells go dry eventually, even if they fill again later. You will face what you cannot face. Your spine will turn to jelly, and your vaunted courage will leave you weeping in the dust. The day will come.

No masterwork comes without a price, he thought. That doesn't mean it's not worth forging.

Who would sup with the mighty must climb the path of daggers.

Men were willing to wear the same clothes until they rotted off. Of

Care and a long life go together, blacksmith

I understand, Egwene thought. I didn't realize what the Aiel did. I assumed that I just had to be harder, and that was what would teach me to laugh at pain. But it's not hardness at all. It's not strength that makes me laugh. It's understanding.

A drum with no head," Easar said softly, flicking his horse's reins. "A pump with no grip. A song with no voice. Still it is mine. Still it is mine.

You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.

It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out where the strong man stumbled, nor where the doer of deeds could have done them better. "On the contrary, the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena—whose vision is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up again and again; who knows the great devotions, the great enthusiasms; who at best knows in the end the triumph of his achievement. "However

Don't be so easy on yourself, it said.

Ramanujan had lost all his scholarships. He had failed in school. Even as a tutor of the subject he loved most, he'd been found wanting. He had nothing. And yet, viewed a little differently, he had everything. For now there was nothing to distract him from his notebooks- notebooks, crammed with theorems, that each day, each week, bulged wider.

Viewed one way, then, for at least five years between 1904 and 1909, Ramanujan floundered- mostly out of school, without a degree, without contact with other mathematicians. And yet, was the cup half-empty or half-full?

He received no guidance, no stimulation, no money beyond the few rupees he made from tutoring. But for all the economic deadweight he represented, his family apparently discouraged him little- not enough, in any case, to stop him.

Shanna Parkinson

I came here to get there. Do I have any fucking clue what there is? Hell the fuck no. I'm just trying to live in a world of the dead.

Alguien te dirá que te acostumbres a esto. Ese sentimiento de estar asustado y triste. Te dirán que todo se pondrá mejor cuando aprendas a ignorarlo. No los escuches. Aférrate a él, recuérdalo... No dejes que lo olvides. Es muy fácil perder.

Robert Kirkman

Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to playing it; and play to win.

Don't let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning.

Life pushes all of us around. Some people give up and others fight. A few learn the lesson and move on. They welcome life pushing them around. To these few people it means they need and want to learn something.