Quotes About Perseverance

Spiritual fitness was important, too. I never allowed myself to forget who was in command as I went through these paces. In the journal I kept, the final words in each entry were the same every day: "Thank you, God, for one more day." No matter how bad things would get, I'd never forget to tell Him that.

But as we are always told, you have to earn that Trident every day. We never stop learning, never stop training.

years in a U.S. civilian jail

Remember the philosophy of the U.S. Navy SEALs: "I will never quit...My Nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down, I will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my teammates...I am never out of the fight." Those

colleagues we were indeed fit and qualified enough to attempt BUD/S training.

Marcus, the body can take damn near anything. It's the mind that needs training. The question that guy was being asked involved mental strength. Can you handle such injustice? Can you cope with that kind of unfairness, that much of a setback? And still come back with your jaw set, still determined, swearing to God you will never quit? That's what we're looking for.

No matter how much it hurts, how dark it gets or how hard you fall, you are NEVER out of the fight.

My God had not spoken to me again. But neither had He forsaken me. I knew that. For damned sure, I knew that.

Those instructors have watched men drop, watched them fail, watched them quit, and watched them quietly, with ice-cold, expressionless faces. That's not heartless; it's because they were only interested in the others, the ones who did not crack or quit. The ones who would rather die than quit. The ones with no quit in them.

There's an old SEAL motto: Never assume a frogman's dead unless you find his body.

The only way out of hell is to walk right through it. When you do, it always helps to have your brothers by your side.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

Initiative, combined with

year in the US. So

He told her she was right. That for all they knew, they still knew nothing. That for all they knew, there were still worlds after this one, eternities that followed the abyss. And he told her that if they died tomorrow, he would follow her across them. He would chase her through existence if that's what it took.

you are going to find that the heights you've attained make for a long fall if you don't understand the mountain.

Whatever goes down, whatever turns up—make food and music and dance and story out of it.

made it my business to be tough in the ways that they were tough—on the inside, where it counted. The

For fiction is not about life; it's about the troubles in life. That is why we read it. To understand, to grow, to believe, to hope. That all the troubles one faces in life can be overcome, eventually.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

While the sick man has life, there is hope.

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.