Quotes About Perseverance

Seems like our life's over and done. No, it ain't, Ma smiled. It ain't, Pa. An' that's one more thing a woman knows. I noticed that. Man, he lives in jerks -- baby born an' a man dies, an' that's a jerk -- gets a farm an' loses a farm, an' that's a jerk. Woman, it's all one flow, like a stream, like eddies, little waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it like that. We ain't gonna die out. People is goin' on -- changin' a little, maybe, but goin' right on.

Take it's something kind of long—you start at the beginning and remember everything you can, right to the end. Every time it comes back you do that, from the first right through the finish. Pretty soon it'll get tired and pieces of it will go, and before long the whole thing will go." I tried it and it worked. I don't know whether the headshrinkers know this but they should.

We carried life out here and set it down the way those ants carry eggs. And I was the leader. The westering was as big as God, and the slow steps that made the movement piled up and piled up until the continent was crossed. "Then we came down to the sea, and it was done." He stopped and wiped his eyes until the rims were red. "That's what I should be telling instead of stories." When Jody spoke, Grandfather started and looked down at him.

You're getting well," Samuel said. "Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is no respecter of glories. Everyone gets well if he waits around.

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

kind of tough on you divin' and drinkin'. Got to.

I seen too many guys with land in their head. They never get none under their hand.

rose like cream to the top of milk.

Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry.

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

Alf was a jack-of-all-trades, carpenter, tinsmith, blacksmith, electrician, plasterer, scissors grinder, and cobbler. Alf could do anything, and as a result he was a financial failure although he worked all the time.

Pretend it's true and maybe it will be. Go through the motions

Baz? insanlar, iyileÅŸmenin hastal?klar?n?n ÅŸan?na hakaret olduÄŸunu düÅŸünür. Ama zaman merhemi ÅŸana filan bakmaz. Beklerse herkes iyileÅŸir.

It's not so bad when you get used to it," said Doc. "I've been drinking it for seventeen years.

Ä°ÅŸ 'yapabilir miyiz'e dayan?rsa, hiçbir ÅŸey yapamay?z. Ama iÅŸ 'yapar?z'a gelirse, o zaman istediÄŸimiz ÅŸeyi yapar?z.

tell ya, a one-eye' fella got a hard row

John Steinbeck

Her faith is a mountain, and you, my son, haven't even got a shovel yet.

Surely most men are destroyed, but there are others who like pillars of fire guide frightened men through the darkest. 'Thou mayest, thou mayest!' What glory! It is true that we are weak and sick and quarrelsome, but if that is all we ever were, we would, millenniums ago, have disappeared from the face of the earth.

Tell 'em ya dong's growed sence you los' your eye.

You cannot cut the ground from under a man and expect him to act normally.

Crossing the starting line may be an act of courage, but crossing the finish line is an act of faith. Faith is what kepes us going when nothing else will. Faith is the emotion that will give you victory over your past, the demons in your soul, & all of those voices that tell you what you can & cannot do & can & cannot be.

Long Distance training can be a positive & constructive form of selfishness. After all, once you're at the starting line, you're there by yourself. No one can run a single step for you. No one can jump in & help you. No one but you can make the decisions about what to do to keep going. It's all up to you.

Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that the want of patience for laborious application and deep research is such a mark of genius as cannot be mistaken: while a real genius, like Sir Isaac Newton, with great modesty says, that the great and only difference between his mind and the minds of others consisted solely in his having more patience.