Quotes About Perseverance

the same law of physics applied to any injury, physical or emotional. If you babied it, it stiffened even more, spreading the pain through you. But if you yielded, if you were willing to endure the white-hot agony of making vulnerable what you sought to protect, you had a shot at releasing it.

I don't like limits. Being told what is possible. By man or nature. Just like you." "No," Evan said. "You want to be everything. I want to be one thing well.

He'd done his best to lock himself off from the past, and yet here it was again, rearing its head, threatening to buck him like a horse.

One thing he'd learned time and again was that you never could tell what kind of private hell people were fighting through.

Maybe the only way to get anywhere worth being is to pick up the heaviest thing you can carry. And carry it.

When you're at a wall, start climbing.

For as long as I can remember, I've been out in the cold, nose up to the glass, looking in. I may not get to come inside, Jack. But I'm sure as hell not gonna let the wolves in at everyone else. No. That's one thing I'm good for.

Evan sits on the floor, hard; the collective wisdom of four cultures distilled into a single ass kicking.

Remember, the hard part isn't killing," he says, not for the first time, or the fiftieth. "The hard part is staying human.

Rosebush after rosebush fell before their marching feet, plowed down by the vanguard.

I'm not saying it's easy. I'm saying it's worth doing. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

He was a Tower of flesh and blood, rising above the emotional quagmire through which other men limped, thoughtless and impotent.

Why are you so committed to him?" "BECAUSE HE SUCCEEDS," Wotan boomed, causing Travers to jump back in her chair.

Tony smiled broadly as he pushed past Jade and walked into the entranceway. "There's these two sperm swimming. And they're exhausted. They've been at it forever, seems like hours. Finally, one turns to the other and says, 'Hey! How much longer we got?' Other sperm looks back at him and says. 'Who you kidding? We just got past the esophagus!' " His laughter started as soon as he finished the joke.

I guess that's the challenge, huh?" Travers said, continuing to flip through the notebook.

It's fine, Mr. Marlow. I'm used to it. About twenty years of people looking at me with . . . with those eyes. 'From forth the kennel of thy womb hath crept a hell-hound that doth hunt us all to death,' " she said in a purposefully deepened and dramatic voice. She was speaking loudly, louder than Jade had heard her speak before.

The last ounce of what he had to give was the ounce that had saved his life.

You don't ask why clarity comes, you just hope it does." Tim

The ones that test the limits sometimes do the most amazing things in life. That's what I've always thought.

Social laws acted and people were maimed, damaged, robbed, and strangled by forces they could not even glimpse. People were driven to sickness, to desperation, to loneliness and fear and remorse. Shaken by tears and longing, in a world they fundamentally failed to fathom, they nonetheless carried on. There was

Are bombs the only way of setting fire to the spirit of a people? Is the human will as inert as the past two world-wide wars would indicate?

The soul of alpinism is to travel light and fast through a dangerous landscape in pursuit of a personal star. That is ascent.

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

No matter how many times you failed or have fallen, no matter how many times you've denied God, He will not deny you.