Quotes About Perseverance

Now, whoever has courage and a strong and collected spirit in his breast, let him come forward, lace on the gloves and put up his hands. (5.363-364)

sic itur ad astra

But if my forces are not enough, I am hardly the one to relent, I'll plead for the help I need, wherever it may be - if I cannot sway the heavens, I'll wake the powers of hell!

Solve metus

I will carry you on my back. This labor of love will never wear me down. Whatever falls to us now, we both will share one peril, one path to safety.

Linaje de sangre de dioses/ troyano hijo de Aquiles, es fácil la bajada al Averno; / las noches y los días permanece abierta la puerta de Dite; / pero hacer el camino de regreso y escapar a los aires de arriba, / eso cuesta trabajo, eso conlleva sufrimiento. Canto VI, versos 129-130

Haud impune quidem; nec talia passus Ulixes, oblitusve sui est Ithacus discrimine tanto.

Tu ne cede malis

Ingentis animos angusto in pectore versant.

Una salus victis, nullam sperare salutem!

Endure for a while, and live for a happier day.

Tum vero Teucri incumbunt, et litore celsas deducunt toto naves:  natat uncta carina; frondentisque ferunt remos et robora silvis infabricata, fugae studio.

Talibus insidiis periurique arte Sinonis credita res, captique dolis lacrimisque coactis, quos neque Tydides, nec Larisaeus Achilles, non anni domuere decem, non mille carinae.

The one safety for the defeated is to have no hope of safety

lateque furentes Barcaei.

His accensa super, iactatos aequore toto Troas, reliquias Danaum atque immitis Achilli, arcebat longe Latio, multosque per annos errabant, acti fatis, maria omnia circum. Tantae molis erat Romanam condere gentem!

Quaeritur huic alius; nec quisquam ex agmine tanto audet adire virum manibusque inducere caestus.

Nate dea, si nemo audet se credere pugnae, quae finis standi?  Quo me decet usque teneri? Ducere dona iube.'  Cuncti simul ore fremebant Dardanidae, reddique viro promissa iubebant.

Una salus uictis nullam sperare salutem

flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.

Ille inter navemque Gyae scopulosque sonantes radit iter laevum interior, subitoque priorem praeterit, et metis tenet aequora tuta relictis.

Absumptae in Teucros vires caelique marisque.

Through chances various, through all vicissitudes, we make our way.

If I cannot bend the will of Heaven, I shall move hell.