Quotes About Perseverance

In Russia you learn patience, said Ivan. In America you learn action.

We've just got to face the fact that we're second rate. With the fate of humanity in our hands.

One is never too old to be a student of the enemy.

Once you get a storm started, it's mighty hard to slow it back down again.

Like running the hurdles. Work so hard, jump over every one, fast, high enough but no higher, because you can't afford to hang in the air. And then, when the race is over, you're dripping with sweat, either they beat you or you beat them ... and then a couple of guys come out and move the hurdles out of the way. Turns out they were nothing. All that work to jump over them, but now they're gone.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

Focus too closely on the goal you haven't accomplished, and you'll fail to notice the victories you achieve along the way.

I didn't know how you'd get us out of that last one. But you did. You were good.

There are miracles even reactivity can't pull off, Ender

How many times are you two going to have to save me from myself before this whole drama runs its course?" asked Peter. "I think…six times," said Father. "No, eight," said Mother. "You two think you're so cute," said Peter. "Mm-hm." "Yep.

my courage is nothing but borrowed courage." "Not borrowed," said Mother. "Stored up. In us. Like a bank. We've seen your courage and we saved some for you when you temporarily ran out and needed some of it back." "Cash flow problem, that's all it was," said Father.

Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

She discovered, as many a living being had discovered, that rational decisions are far more easily made than carried out.

If you can't do it twice, you can't do it at all.

He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the most constant things in life. Segundo smiled up at them, happy at least to be dying among friends.

So plans of attack, what good are they then? We try, we do what we can, but what really counts is what you do when command breaks down.

So why don't you go home? Dink smiled crookedly. Because I can't give up the game. He tugged at the fabric of his flash suit, which lay on the bunk beside him. Because I love this.

The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try to write a story that I'm just plain not talented or skilled enough to write. That's the dilemma every storyteller faces. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.

But I have these friends because I stayed with my task. So instead of dragging each other down, we're building each other up. We're not just good friends, we're friends who do each other good.

It is a will for the species to survive with the self inside of it, part of it, tied to it, forever one of the strands in the web–

It may not be the happiness we had before, it may feel like a lesser version of it for a time, we may not even feel it some days at all. But we have to believe more will come. We have to hope.

I can't do a weekly column," Valentine said. "I don't even have a monthly period yet.

Why were they still on that planet? Why weren't they in ships, speeding away? They chose to stay, knowing we had that weapon, knowing what it did and how it worked, they stayed for the battle, they waited for us to come.

Maybe not a home. Maybe that won't come until later. But I believe it will come, Mar. With your brains in this operation, how could it not?" Edimar