Quotes About Perseverance

She still believed in words so much. Farid believed in other things: his knife, in courage and cunning. And friendship.

Was there any more wretched existence than the life of a writer who had run out of words?

I have given this offer more consideration than it is due already. Now, fuck off. Then keep fucking off. Fuck off until you come up to a gate with a sign saying 'You Can't Fuck Off Past Here.' Climb over the gate, dream the impossible dream, and keep fucking off forever.

Real invention is a process of repeated, crushing failure that leads, very rarely, to a success. If you want to succeed faster, there's nothing for it but to fail faster and better.

Because as hard as it is to win by fighting, it's impossible to win by doing nothing.

Never underestimate the power of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor, as a foolish boy once

It's the nature of the beast to believe in bubbles and think you can just entrepreneur your way out.

Most people who hope have their hopes dashed. That's realism, but everyone whose hopes weren't dashed started off by having hope. Hope's the price of admission.

It's the nature of the beast to believe in bubbles and think you can just entrepreneur your way out." She

Screw the end of the world. The world doesn't end. Humans aren't the kind of things that have endings.

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

and had occasion to think on the Italian proverb, " To wait for one who does not come; to lye a bed not able to sleep; and to find it impossible to please those whom we serve; are three griefs enough to kill a man.

Remember, it isn't the snake bite that does the serious damage; it's chasing the snake that drives the poison to the heart.

we are only human, a condition of perpetual uncertainty and failure.

He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't.

Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.

Most of life's battles are won or lost in the mind.

Don't worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don't have opposition, because you're probably not obeying God.

When you accept the fact that your true identity includes being an overcomer, you will never settle for less than a miracle.

Yea, verily, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of deah, I will live forever. If I don't, I sure as hell won't become an unattended death in the state of Wyoming with sheep shit all over me. - Walt Longmire

Every Christian generation learns equally the lessons of Revelation—that God is in control, that the powers of the world are minuscule when compared with God, that God is as likely to work through apparent weakness and failure as through strength and success, and that in the end God's people will prevail.

We didn't want to waste this second chance-- to continue a thread that'd been lost-- to finish a sentence.

Always sailing, sailing, sailing...never quite reaching.

Oh for Thor's sake,' said Camicazi in exasperation. 'Have you not hung around with him for long enough to know that you never give up hope until you are presented with actual Hiccup skeleton, solemnly registered and verified by the Valkyrie Death Committee as completely authentic?