Quotes About Perseverance

Mark Twain said, "I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Any success that you do have is despite your fear, not because of it.

Circumstances don't make a person, they reveal him or her.

Real science can be hard but, like classical literature or playing the violin, worth the struggle.

You may grind their souls in the self-same mill, You may bind them, heart and brow; But the poet will follow the rainbow still, And his brother will follow the plow. JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY (1844–90) 'The Rainbow's Treasure

I'm not trying to please anyone. I'm just trying to write a damn book.

cherish your creative spark, because there's no one else who can light it back up for you when it burns out.

Your fight is long from over, Deon. More of your kind will come... and they will come for you.

Richard E Simmons III

I now saw war as a constant, akin to wildfires. They break out unless you work actively to prevent them.

It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.

Life can be difficult and no one escapes its challenges. Sooner or later you will find yourself pressed to your limits. It may come in the form of a broken relationship, or unemployment, or a serious illness, or the death of a loved one. When it comes you will be tempted to define your life by that painful experience. Don't succumb to that temptation. Refuse to define your life by any single event, whatever it may be. Its a real part of your life, but that is all--just a part.

They lived in them all or they died and every man with them; they had come to believe that to abandon one man was to abandon themselves.

Adversity brings out the best in us ... It's everyday living that does us in.

Darky was always looking for the good thing, no matter how small, and consequently he often found it.

The only people who believe in straight roads are generals & mail coach drivers.

He continued to believe that, like everything else in his life, it would be righted by the sheer force of his will

the measure of us is not what we say or think, but what we are when we are tested by suffering.

It's like life, isn't it? You think you'll outrun it, that you're better than it, but it makes a fool of you every time. It runs you into the ground and steams off whistling away, happy as buggery with itself.

The most important thing is our dignity. If we have that we can survive on bread and water.

He was not a good surgeon, he was not a good doctor; he was not, he believed in his heart, a good man. But he refused to stop trying.

Speedo, when they worked us seventy days and

It had been a day to die, not because it was a special day but because it wasn't, and every day was a day to die now, and the only question that pressed on them, as to who might be next, had been answered.

My only idea ever, Dorrigo had confessed, is to advance forward and charge the windmill. Taylor had laughed, but Dorrigo had meant it. It's only our faith in illusions that makes life possible, Squizzy, he had explained, in as close to an explanation of himself as he ever offered. It's believing in reality that does us in every time. He