Quotes About Perseverance

Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.

Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.

On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.

Just girt me for the onset with Eternity, When breath blew back, And on the other side I heard recede the disappointed tide!

You are facing death and danger and competition, but at any moment, you can decide to have a fearless mindset.

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

EVEN THOUGH I'M MARKED FOR DEATH, I'MA SPARK TILL I LOSE MY BREATH

Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead.

Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets. I may get killed with my own gun, but he's gonna have to beat me to death with it, cause it's gonna be empty.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.

Dying is easy; it's living that's difficult.

Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.

Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.

Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.

The Will to Death is what keeps me alive

Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death.

All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases even starved to death.

From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March

Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat.

The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it