Quotes About Perseverance

and it would all go back to the way it used to be. At the same time, he knew it wouldn't, but he had to hold on to something in the dark nights, and imagination was all he had.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

There's no remaking reality... Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There's no other way.

other people's weakness can destroy you just as much as their strength can. Weak people are not harmless. Their weakness can be their strength.

a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing in between, a father whose compound of ambitions, biases, and beliefs is so unruffled by careful thinking that he isn't as easy to escape from as he seems. Limited men with limitless energy; men quick to be friendly and quick to be fed up; men for whom the most serious thing in life is to keep going despite everything. And we were their sons. It was our job to love them.

If anybody asks, 'Can you do this job? Can you handle it?' you tell 'em 'Absolutely.' By the time they find out that you can't, you'll have already learned, and the job'll be yours. And who knows, it might just turn out to be the opportunity of a lifetime.

Always pick a redhead, Ee-oh, Manny said. he'll give you the best fight in the world. Redhead'll never quit.

That's what I learned from my father and what I loved learning from him: that you do what you have to do.

I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration — it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It's just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time." He went on: "I can't face any more days when I write five pages and throw them away. I can't do that anymore. --New York Times, 18 Nov. 2012

It's amazing how much punishment we can take.

There is no life without patience.

you will make mistakes on a scale you can't even dream of now—because there is no other way to reach the end.

L'immagine che abbiamo l'uno dell'altro. Strati e strati d'incomprensione. L'immagine che abbiamo di noi stessi. Vana. Presuntuosa. Completamente distorta. Ma noi tiriamo dritto e viviamo di queste immagini. «Lei è così, lui è così, io sono così. È andata così per questi motivi…» Basta.

Anybody can run away and survive, the trick was to stay and survive

It's a hard thing to be a jew... it's a harder thing to stay one.

Enduring tedium over real time in a confined space is what real courage is

And what is a man? He is someone who rises when life has knocked him down. He is someone who raises his fist to heaven when a storm has ruined his crop--and then plants again. And again. A man remains unbroken by the savage twists of fate. That man may never win. But when he sees himself reflected, he can be proud of what he sees. For low he may be in the present scheme of things: peasant, serf, or dispossessed. But he is unconquerable

If you want to fight evil, you have to climb down in the slime to do so.

Once I was a lamb, playing in a green field. Then the wolves came. Now I am an eagle and I fly in a different universe.

I remember an old teacher of mine once saying that behind every dark cloud the sun was just waiting to boil you to death.

Nothing would ever have been achieved, he thought, if men had allowed themselves to be diverted by the scale of the problems faced.

A great man once told me there can be no courage without fear," Helikaon said. "He was right. Remember that when your belly trembles and your legs grow weak.

Someone, who when the whole world turns against you, is still standing by your side.

Their faces were set, determined; there was no give in them. For countless centuries men like these had held the Drenai Empire together.