Quotes About Perseverance

They can conquer who believe they can.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.

If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.

Thrice they tried to pile Ossa on Pelion, yes, and roll up leafy Olympus upon Ossa; thrice the Father of Heaven split the mountains apart with his thunderbolt.

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air—there's the rub, the task.

There is but one safety to the vanquished—to hope not safety.

You have suffered worse things; God will put an end to these also.

This last labor grant me, O Arethusa.

They succeed, because they think they can.

We have been Trojans; Troy has been.

Trust one who has tried.

Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises. Easy is the descent to hell the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work; that is labor.

Fléctere si néqueo súperos Acheronta movebo - If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.

The descent into Hell is easy

If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell.

Facilis descensus Averno: Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; Sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras, Hoc opus, hic labor est. (The gates of Hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this task and mighty labor lies.)

Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

It is easy to go down into Hell...; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air---there's the rub...

Facilis descensus Averni.

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

Virginia Cowles

What does the cross mean?" I ask him. "Crucifix. I don't know exactly. Jesus hanging in agony, nailed to boards. But it's a reminder." "Of what?" "Well. Of—Well, evil. That evil's always gonna be around, and you deal with it.

I want to be the one to say: "This is what I'll do, this is how I'll do it, and now see? I've done it.