Quotes About Persistence

How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus

When things get unbearable, I wrap myself into a tight ball and shut my eyes. Every muscle in my body is tense. I open my eyes and I'm still where I was when I closed them to escape. Nothing's changed.

I don't much like my life, but for some dumb reason, I want to be alive, because sooner or later, I figure it will work out.

I am a monotheist. I am in it for life. I am in everything for life. If you don't stop me, I will not stop myself. I have the kind of faith that you can only have if you have talked your way out of trouble all along.

It is hard to get back what is lost. It is more difficult still to begin anew.

There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.

Do not attempt to lose weight without training your muscles at the same time. Prepare, plan, and persist...and get it right the first time. This

notwithstanding

Ellis Peters

you may whisper a word or two to God on my behalf at Matins and Lauds, if you'll be so kind. If he turns a deaf ear to you, small use the rest of us wearing out our knee-bones.

Remember, every attack of the Enemy has a shelf life; this too will pass. But endurance, or grit, is necessary to survive a siege.

Grit, or the ability to endure, is hard to come by. It is developed only by walking through the fire and not giving up.

strange shape appeared, moving deliberately across a nearby section of their old floe.

and so tough that it cannot be worked with ordinary tools.

If they were to get out—they had to get themselves out.

Each dog in turn was taken off his trace and led behind a row of large ice hummocks.

It brought the total run since the beginning of the gale to 84 miles—in six days.

But at five o'clock they knew it was time to give up. She was done, and nobody needed to tell them.

By the end of July, 1914, however, everything had been collected, tested, and stowed aboard the Endurance.

Fortitudine vincimus—"By endurance we conquer.

And o'er the hills and far awayBeyond their utmost purple rim,Beyond the night, across the day,Through all the world she followed him.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

For men may come and men may go,But I go on forever.

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.