Quotes About Perseverance

For every move, there is a countermove. For every disaster, there is a recovery. He never lost faith in his own agency. With his fortune fast diminishing, it was time to act.

The Cubs story is early excellence followed by Biblical drought, an endless trek across the wilderness.

he wanted to win. And would do whatever it took. Here was a self-made man, filled with the most dangerous kind of confidence: he had done it before and believed he could do it gain. This gave him the air of a berserker, who says, If you're going to fight me, you better kill me. - p113

The greatness of Zemurray lies in the fact that he never lost faith in his ability to salvage a situation. Bad things happened to him as bad things happen to everyone, but unlike so many he was never tempted by failure. He never felt powerless or trapped. He was, as I said

Vrits numquam perit.

Mult sunt enim voct, pauc autem lct. (Matthew 20.16:

PITVITA ME TENET Ptuta m tenet.

With a kind of wry envy, Hazel realized that Bigwig was actually looking forward to meeting the Efrafan assault. He knew he could fight and he meant to show it. He was not thinking of anything else. The hopelessness of their chances had no important place in his thoughts. Even the sound of the digging, clearer already, only set him thinking of the best way to sell his life as dearly as he could.

Bigwig, as he had predicted, was getting his head bitten off.

Now Bigwig's put their backs up, and they'll think they've got to go on because he makes them. I want them to go on because they can see it's the only thing to do.

Odysseus brings not one man to shore with him. Yet he sleeps sound beside Calypso and when he wakes thinks only of Penelope.

Can you run?" said Hazel. "I think not. Why you pop-eyed, back-door saucer-scraper—

Richard Adams

You've bitten through a bigger peg than this one I'm dragging.

carrying money, food and the seal ring of Bel-ka-Trazet, set out alone for Lak. BOOK VI

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

Just now I was thinking that I'd died and had to come to life again, had to build up a life myself. Only the new edifice has to be built with the ruins of the old. Or rather, I feel like a tree that has been blasted level with the ground, with only the roots still living. Some even of the roots are dead, some I have to kill, the rest have to grow again somehow.

The only thing that shatters dreams is compromise.

When we put up with any situation we don't have to put up with, it's not because we're dumb. We put up with it, because we want the lesson only that situation can teach, and we want it more than freedom myself.

There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.

It's not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.

At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, that's the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isn't the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way through it, step by step, to freedom.

Keep working on love.

You've sacrificed your entire life to be who you are today. Was it worth it?