Quotes About Perseverance

One should not, after

You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs,' quoted Kokolios, looking at Stamatis significantly. 'I don't like your omelette,' said Stamatis. 'It's made with bad eggs, it tastes foul, and it makes me shit.' (62)

What is worse is that one wonders how, to-morrow, one will find strength enough to go on doing what one has been doing the day before, and for so much too long before that, – strength for the whole mad business, for a thousand and one vain projects: attempts to escape crushing necessity; attempts which are always stillborn....

He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was.......

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.

A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do

The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination

There will always be folks who will talk, and the better you do in the world the more bad things they will say of you. Back there in the settlement you remember how the dogs used to run out and bark at our wagons? Yes, ma. Did the wagons stop? No, ma. Remember that, son. The dogs bark, but the wagons go on their way, and if you're going some place you haven't time to bother with barking dogs.

This here's a hard country. If a man ain't fit, he can't last - Kilkenny

Most men never discover what they've got inside. A man has to face up to trouble before he knows.

Hardy had learned in a hard school, where the tests are given by savage Indians, by bitter cold, by hunger. These were tests where the result was not just a bad mark if one failed. The result was a starved or frozen body somewhere, forgotten in the wilderness.

Another thing Pa taught me: If you're going to fight Ã¢â'¬Â¦ fight. Talk about it after.

We will always have Reeses and Heseltines, and they will always seem big and brave to growing boys. They swagger and make loud noises in their own little circle, but they are only the coyotes that yap around the heels of the herd. 'Remember this, Shell, the coyotes aren't going anywhere, but the herd is, and so are the men who drive the herd.

All men wish to be captains, but few men wish to shoulder the burden of decision, and in coming here with these others, I had staked a claim that I must wall against misfortune.

This is a story of an adventure in education, pursued not under the best of conditions.

Well, I've often been wrong, but this time I was right and they had to pay mind to me or bury me, and mine is a breed that dies hard.

He had fought for a principle, and because it was his nature to fight.

My friend, there is a Hell. It's when a man has a family to support, has his health and is ready to work, and there is no work to do. When he stands with empty hands and sees his children going hungry, his wife without the things to do with. I hope you never have to try it.

stood them off with a Spencer fifty-six until they decided they could have more fun somewhere else with less trouble. You don't forget a man like that Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and Mort was a complete stranger to Kilkenny until he rode in there, half-dead.

My father had lived through wars and troubles, and it left him with a sense that nothing lasted but what a man made of himself.

He was still a boy, but there was steel in him. The eyes into which she looked now were cool, but they were eyes strangely mature. "I reckon I'll stay, ma'am. Down where I come from, we don't back water for no man.

Yet moaning and wailing was not my way. I had never complained, for who cares for complaints? If something is wrong, one does something.