Quotes About Perseverance

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.

When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I'm going to live as if I were a great man.

No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure.

Still, one does what one must.

Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.

Your ability to shape your destiny is directly proportional to your belief that it is a matter of will and determination--however much or little that belief may be.

If you really want to do something, no one can stop you. But if you really don't want to do something, no one can help you

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works." —Alan J. Perlis

Working hard will allow you to be useful to successful people. Working smart will allow you to enter their ranks.

It's hell... Just hell. It's just plain hell... But you gotta go through with it.

At moments I wonder whether those who go, as I do, for a Full Life, don't get their exact reward, which is that The Full Life is full of crap.

God doesn't believe in the easy way.

Now I am more nearly a grown member of the human race..she thought she had never before had a chance to realize the strength human beings have, to endure;she loved and revered all those who had ever suffered, even those who had failed to endure

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice. You've got to keep your mind off pitying your own rotten luck and setting up any kind of a howl about it. You've got to remember that things as bad as this and a hell of a lot worse have happened to millions of people before and that they've come through it and that you will too.

Don't be such a party-pooper, missy --when you're well and truly screwed, either you just sit pissing yourself or you invent some reason to hope.

But then he remembered what George had told him about pain. You know what you can do, even if your body says quit. It's only pain. "It's only pain, he thought, hearing George's voice and seeing his eagle-face. If anyone would know, George would, he thought. And truly, he thought, it's the most useful one thing a body can know.

Ghetel was clawing at the rotten bark on the underside of the big fallen tree that sheltered them. Bark debris and wood-punk kept falling on the blanket. Ghetel, a silhouette against the half-light, would scrabble in the decaying wood for a moment, then pause and put something to her mouth

By the power of faith every enduring work is accomplished.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness

Many give way when success is assured, and rapidly fall back into failure.

The human will, that force unseen, The offspring of a deathless soul, Can hew the way to any goal, Though walls of granite intervene.

He who would accomplish little need sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much.

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him.