Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Showing posts with label endurance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label endurance. Show all posts
Monday, April 01, 2019
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
Monday, April 21, 2014
Post #1528
As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work ; so with the use of suffering, men's minds get the habit of suffering, and all fears and terrors are not to them but as a summons to battle, whereof they know beforehand they shall come off victorious.
—Sir Philip Sidney
—Sir Philip Sidney
Monday, September 09, 2013
Monday, February 11, 2013
Monday, March 19, 2012
Friday, September 10, 2010
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Sunday, May 02, 2010
Post #212
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
—Napoleon Bonaparte
—Napoleon Bonaparte
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Post #149
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
—Helen Keller
—Helen Keller
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Monday, January 04, 2010
Post #95
Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.
—Fridtjof Nansen
—Fridtjof Nansen
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Post #91
In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer
—Albert Camus
—Albert Camus
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Post #71
Ocean sailing does not cease at sunset, or when a motel is reached, or when one is tired of it. It goes on and on, day and night, hour after hour, seasickness, discomfort not withstanding, hammering seas be damned.
—Tom Wicker from 'Rough Passage'
—Tom Wicker from 'Rough Passage'
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Post #45
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
—Robert W. Service
—Robert W. Service
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Post #5
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
—Albert Einstein
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—Albert Einstein
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A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.
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