Quotes About Perseverance

I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down.

With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.

No matter how good a man is, there's always some horse can pitch him.

It don't take no nerve to do somepin when there ain't nothin' else you can do.

Within that frame he went a long way and burned a deep scar.

But this—this is a ladder to climb to the stars." Lee's eyes shone. "You can never lose that. It cuts the feet from under weakness and cowardliness and laziness.

A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody.

First the strangers came with argument and authority and gunpowder to back up both. And in the four hundred years Kino's people had learned only one defense - a slight slitting of the eyes and a slight tightening of the lips and a retirement. Nothing could break down this wall, and they could remain whole within the wall.

If I could do this book properly it would be one of the really fine books and a truly American book. But I am assailed with my own ignorance and inability. i'll just have to work from a background of these. Honesty. If I can keep an honesty it is all I can expect of my poor brain.... If I can do that it will be all my lack of genius can produce. For no else knows my lack of ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.

You can't make a race horse of a pig. No, said Samuel, but you can make a very fast pig.

Anybody can break down. It takes a [real] man not to.

I climb fences when i got fences to climb.

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When shoes and clothes and food, when hope is gone we'll all have the rifle.

In the souls of the people The Grapes of Wrath are Filling and Growing Heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. Happy 112th Birthday John Steinbeck.

I don't mind getting smacked on the chin. I just don't want to get nibbled to death. There's a difference.

And don't worry about losing. If i is right, it happens - the main thing is not to hurry.Nothing good gets away.

Flies conquer the flypaper.

He ain't no cuckoo," said George. "He's dumb as hell, but he ain't crazy. An' I ain't so bright neither, or I wouldn't be buckin' barley for my fifty and found.

Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure.

I know this … a man got to do what he got to do.

Don't roust your faith bird-high an' you won't do no crawlin' with the worms.

We still go where we want, even if we got to crawl for the right.' - Tom Joad (Jr.)

Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared. I'm scared.