Quotes About Perseverance

I think maybe it's harder to lose just one thing than to lose everything.

He said that most men were in their lives like the carpenter whose work went so slowly for the dullness of his tools that he had not time to sharpen them.

His head was pounding and his vision skewed in some way and he was vaguely amazed at being alive and not sure that it was worth it.

That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily. I

Animals might whimper if they're hungry or cold. But they dont start screaming. It's a bad idea. The more noise you make the more likely you are to be eaten. If you've no way to escape you keep silent. If birds couldnt fly they wouldnt sing. When you're defenseless you keep your opinions to yourself.

That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first.

I knew that courage came with less struggle for some than for others but I believed that anyone who desired it could have it. That the desire was the thing itself. The thing itself. I could think of nothing else of which that was true.

In the smoking dawn the party riding ragged and bloody with their baled peltries looked less like victors than the harried afterguard of some ruined army retreating across the meridians of chaos and old night, the horses stumbling, the men tottering asleep in the saddles.

the only thing worse than losing is not playing

All courage was a form of constancy. It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

You care if I say somethin. Say it. Why don't we do what we said and just trade like he wasnt here. Damn if you aint awful hard on a man. Callin on him to follow his own advice. It's hell aint it.

If you dont like to be laughed at dont fall on your ass, said Rawlins.

Dont become anxious. Try not to get worked up. A word to the wise. Bird in hand. Bird in hand? A stitch in time. We're not out of the woods. What the fuck. Where's it say that? Penny wise and pound foolish. Honesty is the best policy. Jesus. Enough

Sürmeye devam etti çünkü geri dönemezdi ve dünya o gün her zamankinden de güzeldi, o ise ölümüne yol al?yordu.

You said that mathematics was mostly about hard work. But I'm still not sure how you go about it. Yes. The first thing you do it take off your shoes and socks. To have parallel access to base ten.

And I said no ma'am I just aim to quit. I ain't ahead by a damn sight. I never will be.

I know they was families got thowed off their farms back in the thirties by the TVA and come to Anderson County and got thowed off all over again. They was even families had been removed from their homesteads in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the thirties, TVA in the thirties again, and the atom bomb in the forties. By that time they didnt have nothin.

You think that when there's somethin that's got you snakebit you can just walk off and forget it. The truth is it aint even following you. It's waitin for you. It always will be.

A week later I went on R and R and three weeks after that I was back in an AC-130 all strapped in and ready to die all over again.

You think that when there's somethin that's got you snakebit you can just walk off and forget it. The truth is it aint even following you. It's waitin for you. It always will be.

When even the bones is gone in the desert the dreams is talk to you, you dont wake up forever.

Let's go. You can sleep in the winter.

Daybreak to backbreak for a godgiven dollar, said Billy. I love this life. You love this life, son? I love this life. You do love this life dont you? Cause by god I love it. Just love it.

You're just trying to keep alive long enough to stay that way.