Quotes About Perseverance

The saying "time heals all wounds" is false. Time heals most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door.

It had been treated unkindly in the past, but that didn't make it less lovely underneath.

The secret is to concentrate on what you're doing. Don't look at the ground. Don't look over your shoulder. Ignore the world and trust it to return the favor.

Time is the great healer, and so on.

but sympathy is not an art for the weak willed

But at the end of the day,

This isn't the hand of some swooning princess who sits tatting lace and waiting for some prince to save her. This is the hand of a woman who would climb a rope of her own hair to freedom, or kill a captor ogre in his sleep." I looked into her eyes. "And this is the hand of a woman who would have made it through the fire on her own if I hadn't been there. Singed perhaps, but safe.

You get things done. Not always the best way, or the most sensible way, but it gets done nonetheless.

Still, it was sulk or sail.

at the end of the day, I am a trouper first and all else second. As such, I couldn't ignore the chance for a little showmanship.

I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.

in the same way that winter was always cold. You complained, took sensible precautions, and got on with the business of living your life.

Eso es lo que de verdad distingue a la nobleza: el convencimiento de que pueden hacer cualquier cosa, ya sea teñir pieles, herrar un caballo, manejar un torno de cerámica, arar un campo... Solo necesitan querer hacerlo.

You must learn patience, E'lir Kvothe. A moment in the mind is worth nine in the fire.

She knew the way of things. She knew if you weren't always stepping lightly as a bird the whole world came apart to crush you. Like a house of cards. Like a bottle against stones. Like a wrist pinned hard beneath a hand with the hot breath smell of want and wine. . . .

The earth would crack and swallow this glittering, self-important place before I would show a trace of despair.

Took an arrow in the knee on my way through the Eld three summers ago. It gives out every now and then." He grimaced and said wistfully, "It's what made me give up the good life on the road." He reached down to touch his oddly bent leg tenderly.

Los huesos se sueldan. El arrepentimiento perdura para siempre.

put his back into it, he managed to slide it slowly

It felt wrong giving up without trying everything possible.

No son buenos tiempos para ser un hombre valiente.

weigh your risks. How badly do you want it, how badly are you willing to be burned?

You get things done. Not always the best way, or the most sensible way, but it gets done nonetheless. You're a rare creature.

wounded pride can spur a man to wondrous things.