Quotes About Perseverance

do, but he was a man of many experiences, and in the past there had always been a way out. Usually there was, if a man took his time and kept his head.

He had seemed huge and fat. He was all of that, but he was also a man of unbelievable strength. His

Vincent Benét's poem The Ballad of William Sycamore.

rip our bottom out.

One would be a man alone, and alone he must fight and die, or fight and live.

He put his hand upon my shoulder and told me that in the world were two kinds of people, those who wish and those who will, and the world and its good will always belong to those who will.

but never let them think there's an end to what you have, for then you will be thrown into the worst hole they have and left to rot. There

I have only strength and ingenuity, and neither trade nor land.

There's two kinds of people in the world, son, those who wish and those who will. The wishers wish to be rich, they wish to be famous, they wish to own a farm or a fine house or whatever. The ones who will, they don't wish, they start out and do it. They become what they want to or get what they want. They will it.

Louis L'Amour

if trouble comes, stand aside and watch what a woman can do!

we've got! Maybe better than all of them!" "Maybe," Deke said shortly, starting

From Caprock Rancher : Another thing Pa taught me: If you're going to fight . . . fight. Talk about it after.

There will be a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.

The wounds had healed, but the scars would be mine forever.

A man is as big as his dreams are. If you want to make big tracks on the land, you got step out and start walking.

that the trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for.

Whenever was it easy for such a man as I? The scars I carry speak of no easy times, lad

He wasn't tough. A tough man has to win and lose. He has to come up after being knocked down, he has to have taken a few beatings, and know what it means to win the hard way. Anybody, he said dryly, can knock a man down. When you've been knocked down at least three times yourself, and then got up and floored the other man, then you can figure you're a tough hombre.

If I make one last prayer I ask that your god grant me an enemy.

opening. Sticks were broken, a fire started.

We grew up to expect hardship and war. But a woman? I'd seen them follow their men to war, seen them seeking over battlefields to find their lonely dead, or the wounded who would die but for them. I have seen a woman pick up a man and carry him off the field to a place where he might have care.

were stiff and

The ledge was steep, but there