Quotes About Perseverance

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

If the sun refused to shine, I'd still be loving you. If mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me.

And as we wind on down the road Our shadows taller than our souls There walks a lady we all know Who shines white light and wants to show How everything still turns to gold And if you listen very hard The tune will come to you at last Where all are one and one is all To be a rock and not to roll.

Nobody hears a single word you say, but you keep on talkin' till your dying day.

If the sun refused to shine I would still be loving you When mountains crumble to the sea There will still be you and me

To be a Rock, and not to Roll...

What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

But he who accomplishes a truly human work, he who does some- 33 thing really great and victorious, is never spurred to his task by those trifling attractions called by the name of "prizes," nor by the fear of those petty ills which we call "punishments." If

Easy dosen't matter to Lyudmila. Easy has never mattered. Possible is what matters.

Just when everything seems to go along just fine, Life comes by and throws you its line.

Someday you will understand that life can't flow as you always planned.

When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!

If a man has decided that he is going to bite off your nose no matter what happens to him in the process, the chances are he will succeed in doing it. He may be severely beaten up, too, but that will not stop him from carrying out his objective. That is the real fighter.

There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.

If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

Enough, a person might say, if that person lived in the civilized world, the world of movies and television and fair play and decent restraint. But Reacher didn't live there. He lived in a world where you don't start fights but you sure as hell finish them, and you don't lose them either, and he was the inheritor of generations of hard-won wisdom that said the best way to lose them was to assume they were over when they weren't yet.

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

A bad grade is only one letter in the Essay of life.

Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it's finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or "finishing the drill" in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals.

The first and most practical step in getting what one wants in this world is wanting it. One would think that the next step would be expressing what one wants. But it almost never is. It generally consists in wanting it still harder.

I nodded. "I have to admit, though, that it's sure nice to have my job back." "You never lost it," Monk said. "It's yours for life." "That long?" I said. "Whether you like it or not," Monk answered me.

I jade fast," she said

She was unwilling to be a silent victim and fought for herself, loud and strong, not just against her attackers, but against the detective who didn't believe her.