#severance

Ye are most strong, ye Sons of the icy North, of the far East, far marching from your rugged Eastern Wildernesses, hither-ward from the gray Dawn of Time! Ye are Sons of the Jotun-land; the land of Difficulties Conquered. Difficult? You must try this thing. Once try it with the understanding that it will and shall have to be done. Try it as ye try the paltrier thing, making of money! I will bet on you once more, against all Jo'tuns, Tailor-gods, Double-barrelled Law-wards, and Denizens of Chaos whatsoever! ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#perseverance #money

She watched with morbid fascination as they gathered at the stumps at the ends of the man's wrists, the old scar tissue the only place on him unclaimed by Fener, but the paths the sprites took to those stumps touched not a single tattooed line. The flies dance a dance of avoidance - but for all that, they were eager to dance. ↗

— Steven Erikson

#book-of-the-fallen #deadhouse-gates #laws-of-nature #life #malazan

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can... ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#perseverance

Keep the faith, don't lose your perseverance and always trust your gut extinct. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#always #extinct #gut #keep #lose

Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#inglorious #lowly #mediocrity #perseverance #success

I will not say, as the beggars at our door used to do, ‘I’ll never ask anything of Him again;’ but, on the contrary, ‘He shall hear oftener from me than ever,’ and I will love God the better, and love prayer the better, as long as I live. ↗

— Philip Henry

#prayer #love

You always need to work hard. You always need to be willing to work hard. Not everything will be hard, but you should, at the very least, be willing to work hard. ↗

— Tom Giaquinto

#inspiration #inspirational #motivate #motivation #never-give-up

My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results... but it is the effort that's heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#heroes #perseverance #men

be who you set out to be... ↗

— Gino Norris

#motivational #perseverance #inspirational

Den mätta dagen, den är aldrig störst Den bästa dagen, är en dag av törst Nog finns det mål och mening i vår färd Men det är vägen, som är mödan värd ↗

— Karin Boye

#men