Quotes About Perseverance

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

It's a long way to the top, If you wanna rock n' roll

Like working out, the first rule of success was just showing up.

Dont give up great things take time

There are so many people who've come before us, arrows and wagon wheels, obsidian tools, buffalo. Look out at the meadow, you can almost see them, generations dissolved in the bluegrass and hay. I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.

Look, we are not unspectacular things. We've come this far, survived this much. What would happen if we decided to survive more? To love harder?

But love is impossible and it goes on despite the impossible.

Months later, when we went on our first date, I tried to seem put together, I wore a shawl she had given me. And her ring. I thought everything was behind me: death, and dying, and sickness. I didn't know I was changing my life— that I would have done anything, that what was left of me would become so ruthless to survive.

See, our job was simple: keep on living. Her job was harder, the hardest. Her job, her work, was to let the machine of survival break down, make the factory fail, to know that this war was winless, to know that she would singlehandedly destroy us all.

I think a lot about the word tenacity. What it takes to survive in a world that is sometimes beautiful and sometimes hostile. I'm always amazed at the body's willingness to continue, to keep going. The heart that keeps pumping, the lungs that keep breathing, the way the will to live can outsmart those other dark voices inside.

The dog does this beautiful thing, it waits. It stills itself and determines that the waiting is essential.

I haven't given up on trying to live a good life, a really good one even

Darling Cockroaches of the Highest Order, hard underthings of hard underworlds, I am utterly suspicious of advice.

How masterful and mad is hope.

Hugo thought that it simply could not be otherwise; he would surely somewhere see that beautiful, beloved face that he had daily seen for so long!    But he did not see it.    After his search had gone on for some months, after winter had already cast its snowflakes and its blanket of ice over the city, he gave up his efforts. He sat in his room and held his lovely, weary head in both his hands.

and if the other man falls, and not just any man but a man also trained to take it, they're done, they've won the purest win and that's what they're dreaming, these men in the back rooms of The Blue Horizon

and fi red.

CHAPTER NINE FIGHT TO THE END

Aduro himself had told them so. "Tom." Elenna shook his shoulder gently. "We have to go. Another evil Beast is waiting for us." "I know." Energy flooded through Tom as he pledged

My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

The pain you are feeling is merely the strike of every hammer blow on the anvil as you are being forged.

Writing is like shadow boxing. Editing is when the shadows fight back.

Achieving accomplishments without first making a sacrifice to gain them does not make you accomplished. That just makes you a lucky bastard.

Many people who encountered Grant were taken aback by the strength of his commitment and dedication...at the expense of all other aspects of life.