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Quotes About Perseverance

If at first you don't succeed," Bob said cheerfully, "you probably needed a better plan to begin with.
~ Jim Butcher
growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee.
~ Jim Butcher
Bad things kept happening to me. It was high fucking time I started happening to them. Maeve
~ Jim Butcher
I had expected him to try to talk me out of it. Or at least to berate me for being an idiot. He didn't do either. There was a calm acceptance of terrible things that was part and parcel of Sanya's personality. No matter how bad things got, I didn't think anything would ever truly faze him. He simply accepted the bad things that happened and soldiered on as best he could.
~ Jim Butcher
How do i do this?
~ Jim Butcher
There should be some kind of rule against needing to kill anything more than once. Rain
~ Jim Butcher
I'll be patient," I said. "But not forever.
~ Jim Butcher
Sometimes I get tired of being the guy who is supposed to deal with un-deal-withable situations. I
~ Jim Butcher
that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something.
~ Jim Butcher
The pain we feel in life always grows. When we're little, little pains hurt us. When we get bigger, we learn to handle more and more pain and carry on regardless. Old people are the hands-down champions of enduring pain.
~ Jim Butcher
Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.
~ Jim Butcher
MURPHY'S SATURN HAD gotten a little blown up a couple of years back
~ Jim Butcher
When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.
~ Jim Butcher
You now have more work. Cease your whining, desist from your dalliances, and do your duty.
~ Jim Butcher
We didn't charge into the fray so much as aggressively shamble.
~ Jim Butcher
What matters is the success or failure of your will. Your will to overcome human weakness. Your will to work. To learn. I will have no shirkers here, boy.
~ Jim Butcher
From the pain of our failures we learn to be better, stronger, greater than what we were before.
~ Jim Butcher
There had to be something I could do. Had to be. There had to be.
~ Jim Butcher
I don't always knock down doors," I said. "Sometimes it's a wall.
~ Jim Butcher
We still hadn't learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time, you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize that there are more flavors of pain than coffee.
~ Jim Butcher
I spent my lifetime fighting the darkness without becoming the darkness. Maybe I had faltered at the very end. Maybe I had finally come up against something that made me cross the line-but even then, I hadn't turned into a degenerate freakazoid of the Kemmler variety. One mistake at the end of my life couldn't erase all the times I had stood unmoved at the edge of the abyss and made snide remarks at its expense.
~ Jim Butcher
It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.
~ Jim Butcher
Even in Winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.
~ Jim Butcher
You'll get through it." "What if I don't?" I squeezed her fingers. "Then I will personally make fun of you every day for the rest of your life," I said. "I will call you a sissy girl in front of everyone you know, tie frilly aprons on your car, and lurk in the parking lot at CPD and whistle and tell you to shake it, baby. Every. Single. Day.
~ Jim Butcher