Quotes about Perseverance
To die before coming to the end of willpower, was that not an aristocrat's choice?
— Frank Herbert
Paul crawled through the sphincter
— Frank Herbert
Think you carefully on this Bene Gesserit proverb and perhaps you will see: "Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
— Frank Herbert
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
— Frank Herbert
Humans can balance on strange surfaces, Odrade said. Even on unpredictable ones. It's called 'getting in tune.' Great musicians know it. Surfers I watched when I was a child on Gammu, they knew it. Some waves throw you but you're prepared for that. You climb back up and go at it once more.
— Frank Herbert
Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities
— Frank Herbert
It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib
— Frank Herbert
May thy knife chip and shatter.
— Frank Herbert
There were forty Fremen—she and Paul made it forty-two.
— Frank Herbert
Show no mercy. Never stop. Mercy is a chimera. It can be defeated by the stomach rumbling its hunger, by the throat crying its thirst.
— Frank Herbert
Whatever comes from behind the mountains must cross the dunes.
— Frank Herbert
If you stay high in the storm you'll survive.
— Frank Herbert