Quotes About Perseverance

Tyson charged at the Cyclops leader, Ma Gasket, her chain-mail dress spattered with mud and decorated with broken spears. She gawked at Tyson and started to say, "Who—?" 463/508 Tyson hit her in the head so hard, she spun in a circle and landed on her rump. "Bad Cyclops Lady!" he bell owed. "General Tyson says GO AWAY!" He hit her again, and Ma Gasket broke into dust.

Percy stared at his jelly donut. He had a rocky history with Nico di Angelo. The guy had once tricked him into visiting Hades's palace, and Percy had ended up in a cell. But most of the time, Nico sided with the good guys. He certainly didn't deserve slow suffocation in a bronze jar, and Percy couldn't stand seeing Hazel in pain. We'll rescue him, he promised her. We have to. The prophecy says he holds the key to endless death.

Her secret fear? Maybe she didn't tried hard enough.

I found that things weren't going well upstairs. Carter was a crumpled heap of chicken warrior on the slope of the pyramid.

There was no point moping around when you faced imminent death.

I prayed the monsters would give up. Or that perhaps Philip of Macedonia would climb back to the terrace (do crocodiles climb?) and renew the fight.

No matter how many times Percy killed them and watched them crumble to powder, they just kept re-forming like large evil dust bunnies.

Out of every tragedy, he said, comes new strength.

I hoped they couldn't run very fast with those stubby little legs and flippers, but they waddled along pretty well.

Faith that you will find a way to make wine out of your sour grapes.

Annabeth dies, trying to keep her boyfriend, the Son of Poseidon, from drowning.

I want to build some thing permanent.

My friend is dying. Can you cure him or not? Her voice caught on the word friend. Percy was a lot more than that. Even boyfriend really didn't cover it. They'd been through so much together, at this point Percy was part of her - sometimes a annoying part, sure, but definitely a part she could not live without.

Leo remembered their trip together through the House of Hades. Hazel had led him through that creepy maze of illusions. She'd made the sorceress Pasiphaë disappear through an imaginary hole in the floor. She'd battled the giant Clytius while Leo choked in the giant's cloud of darkness. She'd cut the chains binding the Doors of Death. Meanwhile Leo had done...well, pretty much nothing.

Jason managed a weak smile. At least it wasn't a head injury this time. I stayed conscious the entire fight.

Apollo: A man of honor never surrenders his ukelele.

La buena suerte es una farsa. El éxito verdadero requiere sacrificio.

Well, that's what this quest is all about, isn't it?' said Nico, facing forward. 'We have to fix what's been broken.' 'I love that about you, Nico di Angelo.

Stick with us, Magnus, and…well, you won't do fine. You'll get killed quickly. But stick with us anyway. We'll wade into battle and slaughter as many as possible!

She decided to make his life as terrible, tragic and complicated as possible, so that some day Percy Jackson would have a really hard time writing about it.

Sometimes things don't end okay.

No hero is above fear.

Cutting through the roar of the wind, the goddess Nike screamed from the stables: "YOU CAN DO BETTER, STORM! GIVE ME A HUNDRED AND TEN PERCENT!

No one could face battle without caring for something.