Quotes About Perseverance

You don't have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you.

Do you really think you can win?' 'Yeah. Hell, Ortega is only the third or fourth most disturbing thing I've tangled with today.' 'But even if you do win, what does it change?' 'Me getting kiilled now. That way, I get to be killed later tonight instead.' - Susan Rodriguez & Harry Dresden, Death Masks, Jim Butcher

I'd gone with my usual option. I was running through long tunnels filled with demons and monsters and nightmares, because it was easier than going to the gym.

I would hit you on the head with a rock and drag you away from this. But it would only shatter the rock.

So really, it was just as well that Godmother had caught up to me, in spite of my best efforts to avoid her. I'd hate to find out that the universe really wasn't conspiring against me. It would jerk the rug out from under my persecution complex. -Harry

The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.

Nice try?" Butters said. "Mister, where I come from, there is no try.

Things are not always as bad as they seem. Sometimes, the darkness only makes it easier to see the light.

I guess maybe you don't get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles

Isana felt her throat tighten. We failed. Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly. We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference.

There should be some kind of rule against needing to kill anything more than once.

Let come the forces of night! We will stand! We will get the hell out of here is what we will do, I muttered.

Ease off the martyr throttle.

Karrin Murphy led the charge, and Sanya and I tried to keep up. She went through that sea of foes like a little speedboat, her enemies spun and tossed and turned and disoriented in her wake. Sanya and I hacked our way through stunned foes, pushing and chopping with unsophisticated brutality-and that big Russian lunatic just kept laughing the whole time.

Sometimes the things that are good for you, in the long run, hurt for a little while when you first get to them.

Hospital waits are bad ones. The fact that they happen to pretty much all of us, sooner or later, doesn't make them any less hideous.

Butters, rumbled Skaldi Hair Ball. If he really had broken fingers, it didn't look like they were bothering him much. When are you going to get in this ring and train like a man? About five minutes after I get a functional lightsaber, Butters replied easily, much to Hair Ball's amusement.

Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.

Survival was not enough. One had to live.

One does not simply walk into Mordor--except that was exactly what everyone in the story did anyway.)

I hadn't gotten beaten up twice, shot, and nearly strangled to get taken out by a misguided werewolf bitch.

Hello Angel,'Michael rumbled, and leaned over to give the woman a kiss on the cheek. She accepted it with all the loving tolerance of a Komodo dragon. 'Don't you hello angel me. Do you know what I had to go through to find a baby-sitter, get all the way out here, get the money together and then get the sword back for you?

You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.

Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.