Quotes About Perseverance

It cannot rain but it pours." —JONATHAN SWIFT Oh

Great things.

One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning

The harder it has been for a son of earth to win freedom, The more mightily does he stir his fellow man.

You could be the ugliest, nastiest most miserable piece of shit known to man, but if you had a beating heart there was always a chance you'd turn into a diamond after a million years.

Nothing worth while comes easy. Hard work just makes you appreciate it more.

And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.

Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.

He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.

I will do what I promised. He whispered. No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.

Carry the fire.

I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this. [ Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction , New York Times, April 19, 1992]

Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen the horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance. - The judge

We wouldnt ever eat anybody, would we? No. Of course not. Even if we were starving? We're starving now. You said we werent. I said we werent dying. I didnt say we werent starving. But we wouldnt. No. We wouldnt. No matter what. No. No matter what. Because we're the good guys. Yes. And we're carrying the fire. And we're carrying the fire. Yes. Okay.

Hard people make hard times. I've seen the meanness of humans till I don't know why god ain't put out the sun and gone away.

Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.

The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.

I dont think you havin a bad day, Professor. I think you havin a bad life.

those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength and that they must make their way back into the common enterprise of man for without they do so it cannot go forward and they themselves will wither in bitterness

You say you can't? Then don't do it. That's all.