Quotes About Perseverance

If we're gonna die, let's do it freakin' fighting!

You won't figure out anything if you give in to fear.

WICKED was never going to stop. They were never, never going to stop.

The number one Runner rule: "Never. Stop. Running

Find our way out, Greenie. Solve the buggin' Maze and find our way out.

There are no rules. There are no guidelines. You have few supplies, and there's nothing to help you along the way. Go through the Flat Trans at the time indicated. Find open air. Go one hundred miles, directly north, to the safe haven. Make it or die.

James Dashner

Thomas knew what he thought. Those images would never leave—the Gladers would be haunted by the horrible things that had happened in the Maze for the rest of their lives. He figured that most if not all of them would have major psychological problems. Maybe even go completely nutso.

he didn't feel as if dying would be the easy way out.

You're all still here because of an uncanny will to survive despite the odds, among … other reasons.

wouldn't allow himself to give in to Minho's hopelessness—he didn't want to give up

He wanted to be a Runner. He would be a Runner. Deep inside he knew he had to go out there, into the Maze. Despite everything he'd learned and witnessed firsthand, it called to him as much as hunger or thirst.

Owr brave little shank!

I plan to write three words on my arm before entering the Box, hoping that its simple message will plant seed in the Gladers who see it. To remind them, even subconsciously, what it is we fight for. It's a phrase I saw on a cold, dark night long ago, the Crank pits seething behind me. It's a phrase that I believe with all my heart, despite the horrors. I think you know what it is.

Don't give up!

Sample after sample. Class after class. Puzzle after puzzle. Day after day. Month after month.

It was a strange world. But Thomas was alive, and he lived.

So he was going to get stung by a Griever. Go through the Changing. On purpose.

Tomorrow, his training would begin. Tomorrow, he could start helping them find that missing something. Right then Thomas made a decision. Forget all the weird stuff. Forget all the bad things. Forget it all. He wouldn't quit until he'd solved the puzzle and found a way home.

James Dashner

I'm coming for you Newt

I was the last one to come through. Did everyone make it?" "We were lining up and counting off nice and easy till you came stumbling through like a doped-up bull," Minho responded.

Thomas felt his spirits lift, but immediately squashed them back down. Getting his hopes up was something he'd sworn never to do again. Not until all this was over.

Stay smart and run. Sounds like a sweet life.