Perserverance Quotes

Pain is the seasoning that gives pleasure its flavor.

The person who says it can’t be done is almost always interrupted by the person who is doing it.

A river has many curves, but it always reaches the ocean.

In your face, E! X totally won that bet. The dark madame left the room to let X continue to bleed out. X had one other thought beyond destroying the female. Where the hell did she get those sweet shoes?

Our inner fire is the spark of hope that drives us through even the darkest times. Do not be so quick to dismiss it.

The only power worth a snot is the power to get up after you fall down.

To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way.

It is impossible to make time but you can always make a commitment.

You cannot become the greatest without at least a gr- and a test inside of you

If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.

The world's a stage and I'm on it. Better make a good impression out there!

So the criminals win, that's what you're saying? For now they do. But it's a long game, Jamison. And I always play for the long game.

I don't stop when I am tired, I stop when I am done

Do you know why people like me are shy about being capitalists? Well, its because we, for as long as we have known you, were capital, like bales of cotton and sacks of sugar, and you were commanding, cruel capitalists, and the memory of this so strong, the experience so recent, that we can't quite bring ourselves to embrace this idea that you think so much of. As for hat we were like before we met you, I no longer care. No periods of time over which my ancestors held sway, no documentation of complex civilisations, is any comfort to me. Even if I really came from people who were living like monkeys in trees, it was better to be that than what happened to me, what I became after I met you.

Never be afraid to offer a smile; sure the risk is that a few foolish people may misinterpret your kindness as weakness, but the sweet reward is that as you make new friends and encourage others, the foolish will learn the error of their ways because you did at least show them your teeth.

I could just like down, right here, and let the sand cover me like a blanket. But my legs, clumsy as they've become, keep stumbling forward on their own. I'm not frightened and I'm not sorry. Not even a little bit. Nikko and I shared this fate, six years apart. We both walked into the desert, and we will both have died out here, under the wide open sky. At this moment, I feel closer to him than I have in years. Maybe that's what Endd meant when she said that none of us are ever truly alone.

Stand like a beaten anvil.It is the part of a good athlete to be bruised and to prevail.

We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering.

Yesterday was just the tip of the iceberg of awesomeness. Things will get better. Keep smiling, don't give up just yet. Perseverance has an amazing gift for you, just wait you see.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.