Quotes About Perseverance

From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.

I don't give up and I don't wear down. I'm not just rock, I'm diamond .

Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what? asked Wang-mu. I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes, said Peter. Then let's do it. That's us in spades.

I'm hurting you to make you a better soldier in every way. To sharpen your wit. To intensify your effort. To keep you off balance, never sure what's going to happen next, so you always have to be ready for anything, ready to improvise, determined to win no matter what. I'm also making you miserable.

Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone.

Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.

When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make damn sure we're the ones alive at the end.

We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on

He woke up and fought another battle and won. Then he went to bed and slept again and dreamed again and then he woke up and won again and slept again and he hardly noticed when waking became sleeping. Nor did he care.

Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone.

He had lots of deaths, but that was OK, games were like that, you died a lot until you got the hang of it

The devil takes his victories," the man replied, "wherever men of God lose heart, and leave the field to him.

The bones are hard and by themselves seem dead and stony, but by rooting into and pulling against the skeleton, the rest of the body carries out all the motions of life.

Endurance, after all, was a kind of victory; a kind of heroism, too.

It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure.

I am a Gordian knot. Don't unravel, just slice.

As I recall, St. Paul stood by and held the coats of the men who were stoning him (Stephen). Apparently he wasn't a believer at the time. In fact, I think he was regarded as the most terrible enemy of the Church. And yet he later repented, didn't he? So I suggest you think of me, not as the enemy of God, but as an apostle who has not yet been stopped on the road to Damascus

Saving the human race is a frantic one. Or a tedious one. It all depends on what stage of the process you're taking part in.

History's got no bows on it, only frayed ends of ribbons and knots that can't be untied.

I'm just saying things never get so bad we can't do something to make them better.

I suppose this means you can swim after all. Or am I supposed to tow you? If you really try, said Loaf, grinning, you might not die.

You're not crazy. You're not evil. But you can't stop.

You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive

But always a giant, long before his body showed it.