Quotes About Perseverance

It was as if there was a place called After, and if I could just push my family across to that shore, then everything would be all right. There would be time for all these "soft" problems in the land of After.

But it is not enough to be told a word as big as that. You have to live with it, carry it around with you. You have to pace around and around it, see it from different angles, at different times of day, in different light, until you understand, until it enters you. You have to hold it inside yourself in secret for years, like the hideous stone inside a peach. How

And he clutched it tight in his fist, as if it were his final, brightest hope in a world of tragic illusions.

It's funny what kind of hell you can get used to.

I expect to lose. I always do. And life seems eager to exceed my expectations.

choke him. They filled him with their trial and

We're coming! She felt like shouting it to the sky. We're on our way!

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not excuse I will not retreat a single inch And I will be heard.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

Dreams and Dedication are a powerful combination.

What matters, though, is not the space you're put in to work; what matters is the work you do in it. The Manhattan Project, the World War II race to develop the atomic bomb, also started out under a football stadium. Beneath the stands of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team of physicists led by Enrico Fermi built a crude fission reactor, brought its uranium fuel to critical mass, and set off a chain reaction that changed the world. We

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry—every man of every nation has done that—'tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Charlotte, having seen his bodyBorne before her on a shutter,Like a well-conducted person,Went on cutting bread and butter.

To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficulty to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness

I would rather make my name then inherit it.

There are few experiences in life as painful and brutal as the failure of a small business. For a small business conceived and nurtured by its owner is like a living, breathing child. Its loss is no less traumatic than losing a loved one.

I can stand you all being a lot worse now, because I can always go there. It's when I haven't got anywhere to go that I get mad straight away. But if I go there for half an hour it's beautiful to come back.

If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.

don't have fights. I have wars.' To Harkness

The road, it seemed, was a river and he was the only one who knew the stepping-stones.

Who are the bitterest people in the world? The failed idealists, I would think.

I didn't know if we were heading for the gallows or an interrogation chamber. The night had passed without sleep; save for a swig from the German's flask, there hadn't been a sip to drink since the rooftop of the Kirov; a lump the size of an infant's fist had swelled where my forehead had cracked the ceiling- it was a bad morning, really; among my worst- but I wanted to live.

Keep the fire in the kitchen to see if it outlasts the storms and rain outside.