Quotes About Perseverance

Es mejor contar con un ejército pequeño y disciplinado que tener una turba ingente que retroceda o se rinda a las primeras de cambio.

The war was won by men like us, ordinary men, uneducated but not stupid. Fall of Giants.

consolation

era mejor morir que renunciar a la esperanza de una vida mejor.

floor, with

Seguir con lo que se está haciendo usualmente parece un sacrificio, pero casi nunca lo es.

unresolved status is intolerable.

He felt a bit like the von Ulrich house looked, battered and bombed and shot at but still standing.

However, their affection for each other had proved strong enough to survive their differences—so far.

Nos enfrentaremos a todas las dificultades juntos y resolveremos todos nuestros problemas juntos.

His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift. But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it.

I had to keep on acting deaf if i wanted to hear at all.

But I tried though, he says. Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn't I?

He was in his chair in the corner, resting a second before he came out for the next round -- in a long line of next rounds. The thing he was fighting, you couldn't whip it for good. All you could do was keep on whipping it, till you couldn't come out anymore and somebody else had to take your place.

There's no doubt in my mind that McMurphy's won, but I'm not sure what.

It's fogging a little, but I won't slip off and hide in it. No...never again...

The same old rain, and, if not welcomed, at least accepted—an old gray aunt who came to visit every winter and stayed till spring. You learn to live with her. You learn to reconcile yourself to the little inconveniences and not get annoyed. You remember she is seldom angry or vicious and nothing to get in a stew about, and if she is a bore and stays overlong you can train yourself not to notice her, or at least not to stew about her. Which

he's finished with that; it's like an old clock that won't tell time but won't stop neither, with the hands bent out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm bell rusted silent, an old worthless clock that just keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing.

Because sometimes the only way to keep from losing everything is to give everything up. Because sometimes strength must for the sake of winning give in to--

You must go through a winter to understand.

Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail. It is the deepest faith we have, and the unbeliever- the blasphemer, the dissenter- will stimulate in us the most righteous of furies.

Okay, stand outa the way. Sometimes when I go to exertin' myself I use up all the air nearby and grown men faint from suffocation.

I'm accustomed to being top man. I been a bull goose catskinner for every gyppo logging operation in the Northwest and bull goose gambler all the way from Korea, was even bull goose pea weeder on that pea farm at Pendleton -- so I figure if I'm bound to be a loony, then I'm bound to be a stompdown dadgum good one.

sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she saw those printed doors swing open on a vast house of words.