John Masefield Quotes

You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!

Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

There is no other course but the one we have chosen, except the course of humiliation and darkness, after which there will be no bright sign in the sky or brilliant light on earth? All this will make us more patient and steadfast, and better prepared for the battle which God blesses and which good men support. Then there will only be a glorious conclusion, where a brilliant sun will clear the dust of battle, and where the clouds of battles will be dispelled.

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

Surviving is the only glory in war.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

To the stars through thorns.

Don’t give up the ship! Fight her till she sinks.

For me, football is a quest. Quests entail overcoming hardship, trials of adversity in the pursuit of true joy.

Scars are the price you pay for success.

To conquer [our enemies] we must dare, and dare again, and dare for ever; and thus will France be saved

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!

There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up.

I fall, I stand still... I trudge on. I gain a little... I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory.

I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy has risen up and done me the greatest injury.

A measure of victory has been won, and honors have been bestowed in token thereof. But honours fade or are forgotten, and monuments crumble into dust. It is the battle itself that matters - and the battle must go on.

Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those.

The War is not over (and the one that is, or the part of it, has been largely lost). But it is of course wrong to fall into such a mood, for Wars are always lost, and War always goes on; and it is no good growing faint.

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

Here we are then, I was thinking, in a war to the finish between everything I love and everything I hate. Fine. We will win and they will lose. A pity that we let them pick the time and place of the challenge, but we can and we will make up for that.

To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to achieve.

Who speaks of conquering? To endure is everything.

Understand that the enemy always fights the hardest when he knows you are closest to your breakthrough. He'd leave you alone if he thought you were going to live in mediocrity. If you keep pressing on toward your promise, through faith and patience, you will get there.

I believe in struggle. And I believe that the struggle is beautiful. You have to try it, or you will never know what's beyond it.