Quotes About Perseverance

Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find. A man's strength is ultimately born of his knowledge of his own weakness

How delightfully you turn me away - not with strength but with admitted weakness.

would ride into fire. For Odysseus that whip was pride.

A man must fight for life even when he believes all is lost.

Life is unfair. Do you think your enemies will sit back and wait until you are fresh? Learn to marshal your strength.

Impatience can be fatal.

Hella isn't easy, but Captain Skyler says life isn't easy. If it were easy, everybody would do it. Death is what you do if you're not up for the challenge.

Hellacious has a whole new meaning here.

It's the grass, the tall smothering stiff grass. It always wins. Knock it down, it comes back. Burn it, it comes back. The grass is forever.

The trick was to live here without hating yourself because all around you was hatred. The trick was to refuse to allow your pain to prevent you from living honorably.

When I think about John William now, I think about someone who followed through, and then I'm glad not to have followed through, to still be breathing, to still be here with people, to still be walking in the mountains, and to still be uncertain--even with all this cash on hand--in a way I seem to have no choice about. I'm a hypocrite, of course, and I live with that, but I live.

Well, I think it's extraordinarily fun to write, and I look forward to it every day, but that doesn't mean I think it's easy. There's a difference between the two. It's fun in the way all worthwhile things are fun – there's difficulty attached to it. I think that a writer has to accept a certain amount of frustration. It's inherent in the task, and you have to simply persevere. It's part of the definition of the work.

Mao's conviction, "Give me a path wide enough to move a mule and I will move an army.

you do the work, it will eventually turn into money!

We must conserve our strengths for the battles we can win.

I thought I'd done with it all. Now I've begun again. Begun what? Life. Life! she re-echoed, with a queer thrill. It's life, he said. There's no keeping clear. And if you do keep clear, you might almost as well die. So if I've got to be broken open again, I have--.

If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.

Tenemos que seguir viviendo, a pesar de todos los cielos desplomados.

Shed sweat—not blood

Surviving as a people in the face of a society that wanted to dispossess them and deny who they were was their great contest. It is a struggle—a fundamentally colonial one—that has lasted to this very day.

Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise. —Antonio Porchia

The man on the rock had pitched five outs in the losing game, and had given up two runs on a single. But he'd inherited loaded bases. The story of his life. The story of all our lives.

him, trying to do the same.

Overcomers concentrate on details that go unnoticed by others. They do what needs to be done, even when no one is watching.