Quotes About Perseverance

Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.

Kill us today or you'll have to kill us tomorrow.

Any form of complacency is the kiss of death for any professional.

I want to go on living even after death!

Death is no different whined at than withstood.

Not all of me shall die.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

In death, hope is everlasting.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

Death and worse happened on the plains.

I shall not altogether die.

We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.

The monster nevers dies.

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

I'm working myself to death.

Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damndest.

For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands.

I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head. And there is no hurry about it; I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral, Seeing that long standing increases all things regardless of quality.

I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death.

the perverse senselessness of just remaining, of not going.

Nothing illegal is achieved without patience.' Benjamin Franklin.

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.

Todo el mundo está insatisfecho, pero en general no se rompe, y, sobre todo, no rompen las personas que, a su vez, han sido abandonadas, como tú y tu hermano. Cuando pasas por lo que vosotros habéis pasado, valoras muchísimo la estabilidad, probablemente la valoras en exceso. Lo más difícil del mundo es cortar el nudo de tu vida y marcharte.

She's a fighter. She's fine. She's made tremendous strides." True—all the while he has been stoically enduring it she has made tremendous strides by finding it unendurable, by being devastated by it, destroyed by it, and then by denuding herself of it. She doesn't resist the blows the way he does; she receives the blows, falls apart, and when she gets herself up again, decides to make herself over.