Quotes About Perseverance

It's just a thing. You deal with it. As in, one damn thing after another? Yes, very like.

Real destiny takes everything—the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure—and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it.

You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on. What do you find on the other side? When you go on? She shrugged. Your life again. What else?

There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.

Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.

For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.

When your young life offered its first disaster, naturally it loomed large. After you'd survived dozens, you basically just told the next one to take a number and get in line.

It's never too late while you're breathing.

You? I know you! You trust beyond reason. She met his eyes steadily. Yes. It's how I get results beyond hope. As you may recall.

God save me from another such victory.

Take heart, sir, Cazaril consoled him. It is not your destiny today to win a royacy for your son. It is to win an empire for your grandson.

Ivan: ] "... you haven't let the lack of half-marks stop you. Or the rules. Or respect for reality, as afar as I can tell." [Miles:] "I never let anything stop me. That's how you get what you want, Ivan. No one's going to just hand it to you.

There is this, about being the sparring partner of the best swordsman in Caribastos. I always lost. But if ever I meet the third best swordsman in Caribastos, he's going to be in very deep trouble.

It could be surprisingly hard to counter Plain Stupid. Even by heroic measures.

We have what we can hold, dear boy, and never let them see you flinch or falter.

Some attitudes couldn't be changed, they just had to be outlived

Divide the infinite future into five-minute blocks, and take them one by one.

We just try to go from day to day. Surprising where you can end up, that way.

All her old thoughts seemed as thin and ragged as a piece of knitting made and ripped out and made and ripped out again until all the threads were frayed, growing ever more worn, but never larger.

I know my limits. No one knows their limits till they've gone beyond them.

It's never too late to save something," he said sternly. "Might not be what you wanted, is all.

My word was too easy to give, too hard to keep.

I expect you'll be wading for the rest of your life," Illyan answered seriously. "But every Komarran who follows you will have less crap to deal with, because of you.

He smiled, recapturing her hand. "A very wise woman once told me—you just go on. I've never encountered any good advice that didn't boil down to that, in the end. Not even my father's." I want to be with you always, so you can make me laugh myself well.