Quotes About Perseverance

There is no teacher but the enemy.

Orson Scott Card

Sometimes David kills Goliath, and people never forget. But there were a lot of little guys Goliath had already mashed into the ground. Nobody sang songs about those fights…

Don't be one of the scurrying, struggling ants. Be the shoe.

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

Those two people in the back of the boat, he felt kind of sorry for them. They still lived in the drowned city, they belonged down there, and the fact that they couldn't go there broke their hearts. But not Deaver. His city wasn't even built yet. His city was tomorrow.

There is only try and try again, until you can persuade the world to work according to your new plan for it. ... Everything has a mind of its own and follows the laws it already understands.

Bean just didn't get it. He didn't feel that way about anybody. 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 and lying in bed boo-hooing doesn't help much with that.

Siempre que sigas naciendo, esta bien morir a veces.

The whole world always burns...Or it floods. Or some insect eats the crops and you starve...Every baby you have dies eventually, no matter what you do. Yet we have babies and try to go on.

And all I managed, barely, was endurance.

I'll carry you,' said Ender, 'I'll go from world to world until I find a time and a place where you can come awake in safety. And I'll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time they can forgive you, too. The way that you've forgiven me.

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

Everything everybody does is a waste of time, until it isn't

The key. The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hands on every key.

Don't be one of the scurrying, struggling ants. Be the shoe.

You cannot absorb losses!" Mazer shouted at him after one battle. "When you get into a real battle you won't have the luxury of an infinite supply of computer-generated fighters. You'll have what you brought with you and nothing more. Now get used to fighting without unnecessary waste.

said Ender cheerfully.

but your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing

Those are experiences that have shaped you. Hard experiences. Painful even. But you are who you are because of them." Other

but you can't preserve at all.

Poor kid. Nobody's treatin' him fair." Ender gently pushed Bean back against the wall. "I'll tell you how to get a toon. Prove to me you know what you're doing as a soldier. Prove to me you know how to use other soldiers. And then prove to me that somebody's willing to follow you into battle. Then you'll get your toon. But not bloody well until.

I didn't fight with honor,' Ender added. 'I fought to win.

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