Jim Butcher Quotes

The impossible becomes possible when your back is against the wall

The situation is hopeless, we must take the next step.

You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.

A man's character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall.

This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

If you quit every time things don't go your way, then you'll be quitting all through your life.

When you hit the wall, it's how fast you come back.

I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.

When things don't go your way, never forget who you are, and always remember the bigger picture.

I've always believed that if you cannot do it, then you should not do it.Only when it comes to the point where you've literally dug yourself into a hole, where it's sink or swim, is that viable to me.

In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.

Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.

I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world.

Life is like a game where you seek to overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of achieving your goals. You get better at this game through practice. The game consists of a series of choices that have consequences. You can't stop the problems and choices from coming at you, so it's better to learn how to deal with them.

A great many people never really discover themselves until ruin stares them in the face. They do not seem to know how to bring out their reserves until they are overtaken by an overwhelming disaster, or until the sight of their blighted prospects and of the wreck of their homes and happiness stirs them to the very center of their beings.... There is something in defeat which puts new determination into a man of mettle.

Remaining calm in times of desperation makes way for opportunity.

We're at the top of the cliff and we can either fall off the edge or keep climbing.

You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done.

Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.

The right way is the hard way.

Life is filled with difficult decisions, he thought. And winners are those who make them.

You just have to fight your way through.

This isn't going to be easy," I grumbled as we headed toward the exit. Bones shrugged. "Nothing worthwhile ever is.

There's no easy quick way out, we're gonna have to live through our whole lives, win, lose, or draw.