Quotes About Perseverance

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

They've still got their problems, just like all of us. They're still sick men in lots of ways. But at least there's that: they are sick men now. No more rabbits, Mack. Maybe they can be well men someday. I can't say.

Azzal együtt megpróbáltam – mondja. – Annyi azért kitellett tÅ'lem, a büdös istenit, hogy megpróbáltam, nem igaz?

Nobody's gonna convince me I can't do something till I try it. -- McMurphy

She don't lose on her losses, but she wins on ours. To beat her you don't have to whip her two out of three or three out of five, but every time you meet. As soon as you let down your guard, as soon as you lose once, she's won for good. And eventually we all got to lose. Nobody can help that.

Hell, are you birds telling me I can't lift that dinky little gizmo?' 'My friend, I don't recall anything about psychopaths being able to move mountains in addition to their other noteworthy assets.

Sometimes—after futile all-nights—deserts fill my work-house and smoking sand gets in my eyes . . . and I must split the swollen cabin to check the dawn, to find: the creek still parties with the moon . . . the thrusting pine and whippoorwills still celebrate the sun. It generally works, and things are cool, but sometimes—after cutting out—nothing out there happens but the night. And those days were best forgotten.

The days are the same, though, damn it (days that you feel like pages of soft wet sandpaper in your fingers, the silent pliant teeth of time eating away); the summers are the same.

That first day still came about as close to undoing me completely, both physically and mentally, as any day had in almost a week.

I was born dead. Not you. You wasn't born dead. Ahhhh, it's been hard...

Technology is a Beautiful Thing.... When It Works...........

This is the West. We expect things to be tough out here.

The almost insoluble task is to let neither the power of others, nor our own powerlessness, stupefy us.

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.

When mountains fall, I'll stand, By the power of Your hand.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Do the thing and you will have the power.

I lived by the candlelight for two years because I couldn't afford power. It was nice and romantic at the time, but if you can't afford power you're pretty broke. You endure it.

Your sensitivity is power. Don't let people transform your qualities into weaknesses.

The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.

To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back.

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will.

The more people challenge us, the more power we gain. We become stronger not under the tiny raindrops but under the huge hailstone!

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.