Quotes About Perseverance

Jurand! Still… Juranding, then???

But there comes a time you have to say no to what you're given and reach for what you want.

life is the misery we endure between disappointments

That's the trouble with ambition. It's easy to forget, when you're always looking upwards, that the only way down from the dizzy heights is a long drop.

She shrugged. "I fell. I'm a clumsy fool." "I know how you feel. I'm such a fool I knocked half my teeth out and hacked my leg to useless pulp. Look at me now, a cripple. It's amazing where a little foolishness can take you, if it goes unchecked.

To fight my enemies I need friends behind me, and I'm clean out of friends. You have to be realistic. It's been a while since my ambitions went beyond getting through each day alive.

Those were the times. Those were still the times, and maybe always would be.

Shenkt had his work, and he would see it through to the end, however bitter. Just as he always did. Some stories, after all, are only suited to bitter endings.

I'll kill them … I'll kill them … I'll kill them …" It hardly needed to be said. She was done with crying. T

Strange, that however tough one's skin becomes in later life, the wounds of youth never close.

Round and round in circles we go, clutching at successes that we never grasp, endlessly tripping over the same old failures. Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

Si te toca levantar una carga, más te vale levantarla que echarte a llorar

It was a look that gave her a tingle, all right, but not in a good way. In that look she saw her silly bloody hopes as twisted and broken as she'd left that Lowlander's arm, and it was no one's fault but her own. She shouldn't have let herself hope, but hopes are like weeds: however often you root them out they keep on springing up.

As commander of a battalion his trade had been to fight the enemy with steel. As a staff officer, it seemed, his role was to fight his own side with paper, more secretary than soldier. He felt like a man trying to push a huge stone up a hill. Straining and straining, getting nowhere, but unable to stop pushing in case the rock should fall and crush him. Meanwhile, arrogant bastards who were in just the same danger lazed on the slopes beside him saying, "Well, it's not my rock.

Truly, life is the misery we endure between disappointments." - Sand dan Glokta

But a man shows his quality when circumstances are against him,

There used to be," she muttered, "but they whip it out of you. They whip you until they're sure there's nothing left." Yulwei stood there, with that pitying look on his face. Strange, how it didn't make her angry any more.

In hard times, it's easy to become hard. But here was a man who always looked for the best in folk. Didn't always find it, but never gave up looking. Wasted no time polishing his own name. Singing his own songs. Didn't have to.

better next time. That's what life is." Logen

He'd been happy to swear it when things were going well and supposed he couldn't just unswear it the moment things turned dicey. What kind of an oath would it be then?

So....wait and see.' 'Eleven times out of twelve, that's the best course...but if I said it that way, no one would reason me a deep thinker.

I've always been my own worst enemy," he muttered. "Stick with me, then." Her smile had widened some. "You'll soon have worse.

I can't walk forever, Malacus, I can't fight forever. How much of this horrible shit should a man have to take? I need to sit down a minute. In a proper fucking chair! Is that too much to ask? Is it?

Only friends get left behind. Enemies are always at your heels. The