Quotes about Perseverance

Paul crawled through the sphincter

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.

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.

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.

Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities

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

May thy knife chip and shatter.

There were forty Fremen—she and Paul made it forty-two.

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.

Whatever comes from behind the mountains must cross the dunes.

If you stay high in the storm you'll survive.

Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.