Quotes About Perseverance

Sometimes life will knock you on your ass... So "Get Up, Get Out and Go deal with it.

At the time, he and two of his classmates had been three of only eight black officers in the United States Army Air Forces. To get to that point they had had to be better than their white colleagues at every stage of the training programme.

Going through means that we have to experience what we not wish to experience, for to flee it is even worse.

The object is not to win or lose, for that is already decided, and already irrelevant80—for us it is rather to be on the playing field, with utmost exercise of élan and investment of spirit to the end.

Old soldiers never die, they write novels.

He had studied, and worked, and slaved, and eaten untold buckets of shit, to have this opportunity.

Maybe he was a good man once, this old one, my predecessor, but they had worn him down, in thirty years, like a big knife made thin and fragile, needlelike, from constant honings. All that good steel just rubbed away no one knew where.

We've built a million kitchens, For the cooks to burn our beans; We've walked a hundred million miles, We've cleaned out camp latrines. If we ever get to heaven, the angels all will yell: Take a front seat, Men of Schofield, You've done your hitch in hell.

ever seen The Warden make toward him, or toward anybody else. It warmed all through him like a drink. It was worth three months in any Black Hole

Write it, damn you, write it! What else are you good for?

I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.

It's something fails us. First we feel. Then we fall. And let her rain now if she likes. Gently or strongly as she likes. Anyway let her rain for my time is come. I done me best when I was let. Thinking always if I go all goes. A hundred cares, a tithe of troubles and is there one who understands me? One in a thousand of years of the nights?

I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.

What? Corpus. Body. Corpse. Good idea the Latin. Stupifies them first. Hospice for the dying. They don't seem to chew it; only swallow it down.

With will will we withstand, withsay.

Broken Eggs will poursuive bitten Apples for where theirs is Will there's his Wall

To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life.

Phall if you but will, rise you must.

Now patience; and remember patience is the great thing, and above all things else we must avoid anything like being or becoming out of patience.

It is like looking down from the cliffs of Moher into the depths. Many go down into the depths and never come up. Only the trained diver can go down into those depths and explore them and come to the surface again.

Haun! Work your progress! Hold to! Now! Win out, ye divil ye!

With thee it was not as with many that will and would and wait and never do.

Visi atrodÄ— pavargÄ™ nuo gyvenimo, dar nepradÄ—jÄ™ gyventi.

Not to fall was too hard, too hard; and he felt the silent lapse of his soul, as it would be at some instant to come, falling, falling, but not yet fallen, still unfallen, but about to fall.