Quotes About Perseverance

Time passes. Horror does not. *

Putting his lips together David whistled a few soft, carefully modulated notes. Head cocked to one side, the alien watched and listened. Then it exhaled softly, trying to duplicate the sounds. Since it possessed a very different respiratory mechanism, it failed in the attempt. That did not matter to David. What was important and what prompted him to tears was the fact that the creature *tried*.

Sometimes, my friend, we are forced into situations we don't like, that make us uncomfortable, that we think we haven't a chance in hell of coping with. But people cope, Frank. They cope all the time.

was certain: His former colleagues would not understand, no matter how hard he tried to explain. No one fled the First Order and lived. The sand sucked at his feet as he stumbled toward the rising smoke. "Poe! Say something if you can hear me! Poe!" He did not expect a response, but he hoped for one. Flame had joined smoke

But patience had to be learned alone.

She would have stayed there, blasting away wildly, had not Finn half dragged, half carried her away.

Aspirations don't disappoint, so long as you realize that the struggle for liberty, justice and anything else worth pursuing never stays won.

This is hell, but I planned it. I sawed it, I nailed it, and I will live in it until it kills me. I can nail my left palm to the left-hand crosspiece but I can't do everything myself. I need a hand to nail the right, a help, a love, a you, a wife.

All my life, I kept waiting for things to get better. For the bright promise of mañana. But a funny thing happened while I was waiting for the world to change, Chabele: It didn't. Because I didn't change it.

Your parents, Oskar and Mina. They are dead and gone now, Yanek, and we would grieve them if we could. But we have only one purpose now: survive. Survive at all costs, Yanek. We cannot let these monsters tear us from the pages of the world.

Fight against the impossible and win

Being brave doesn't mean not being scared. It means overcoming your fear to do what you have to do.

There were some horrors you couldn't fight and couldn't change. The real courage was just in enduring them.

thirty-one of the first forty U.S. Post Office pilots were killed in the first six years).

Winston Churchill once said to his fellow countrymen, "We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy." Today, thanks to a malign combination of litigation, regulation, and pedagogical fashion, sugar-candy people are everywhere.

The person who wants to think will have to practice patience and master fear.

He who earnestly and persistently seeks, shall find! To him who knocks hard, the door will be opened.

a first encounter with a worthwhile book is never a complete encounter, and we are usually in error to make it a final one.

God didn't get you sober to fuck you over.

despite finishing first in my class at Yale Law School, I was rejected by all 32 of the law firms to which I applied.

Never despair. Never surrender.

Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.

Please! Don't all leave. Somebody has to do it, don't you see? Somebody has to save the world...

Never compromise. Not even in the face of Armageddon.