Quotes About Perseverance

Knocking him down was the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. - Ender

Orson Scott Card

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

Everything is going to be fine in the end. If it's not fine it's not the end.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

We know not whether laws be right Or whether laws be wrong All we know who lie in gaol Is that the walls are strong And each day is like a year A year whose days are long.

if he fell, well, he fell—but if he survived he would become a monument, not carved in stone or encased in brass, but one of those New York monuments that made you say: Can you believe it? With an expletive. There would always be an expletive in a New York sentence. Even from a judge. Soderberg was not fond of bad language, but he knew its value at the right time. A man on a tightrope, a hundred and ten stories in the air, can you possibly fucking believe it?

So often, thought Rami, the ordinary can save us.

one of the principal qualities of pain is that it demands to be defeated first, then understood.

all walls were destined to fall, no matter what.

Pain's nothing. Pains what you give, not what you get.

Rami said to the audience that all walls were destined to fall, no matter what. He was not so naive, though, to believe that more would not be built. It was a world of walls. Still, it was his job to insert a crack in the one most visible to him.

The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up...

A man without persistence will never make a good shaman or a good physician.

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.