Quotes about Perseverance
I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me
— Oscar Wilde
It doesn't matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop
— Confucius
All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
— Cormac McCarthy
I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
— Cormac McCarthy
The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.
— Cormac McCarthy
Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will turn rain like the stones.
— Cormac McCarthy
You either stick or you quit. And I wouldnt quit you I dont care what you done.
— Cormac McCarthy
I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.
— Cormac McCarthy
Sometimes faith might just be a case of not havin nothin else left.
— Cormac McCarthy
Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
— Cormac McCarthy
Out on the roads the pilgrims sank down and fell over and died and the bleak and shrouded earth went trundling past the sun and returned again as trackless and as unremarked as the path of any nameless sisterworld in the ancient dark beyond.
— Cormac McCarthy
In the grueling light that passed for day...
— Cormac McCarthy