Quotes About Perseverance

Until I am carried out, I will carry on.

Good guys don't always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries

feather by feather, the chicken is plucked.

What that something might be is for each of us to decide in accordance with our opportunities and talents, but it begins by pushing back harder against the debilitating cancer of cynicism.

Believing takes practice.

If you're trapped in a room, and nobody is coming to save you, what can you do? You have to bang on the walls and break the windows. You have to climb out and save yourself. It's obvious, Li-ling, that crying doesn't help a person live.

It's foolhardy to think that a story ends

Evidently it was very easy to fall if one had already fallen.

Those who see errors as opportunities to learn and try again are the people who will most quickly find new solutions. (This is how our children become resilient.) Those who freeze and panic when they make mistakes will find it much harder to adapt.

The best way we can help our children welcome challenges is to encourage them to work just outside their comfort zone, stand by to lend a hand when needed, and model enthusiasm for challenging tasks.

Children need work experiences to develop a sense that success is a function of their own efforts.

But of course I could not die. I would live on, through each scalding moment to the next. This is the grief that makes our kind choose to be stones and trees rather than flesh.

I have heard that men who live by a waterfall cease to hear it—in such a way did I learn to live beside the rushing torrent if his doom.

We bear it as best we can,

Do you think Aristos Achaion fights in hopeless wars?

Do not let what you gained this day be so easily lost.

The world is an ugly place. We must live in it.

I will not sentence myself to such a living death.

I learned to sleep during the day so that I would not be tired when he returned; he always needed to talk then, to tell me down to the last detail about the faces and the wounds and the movements of men. And I wanted to be able to listen, to digest the bloody images, to paint them flat and unremarkable onto the vase of posterity. To release him from it and make him Achilles again.

I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.

Odysseus drew the world to him," she said. "Telegonus runs after, shaping as he goes, like a river carving a channel.

It was our weakness that drew the war out, not her strength.

Do not let what you gained this day be so easily lost.' - Chiron

Beneath my feet were the bones of a thousand years. I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.