Claudia Gray Quotes

Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.

Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience.

I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.

I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.

Not just when its easy. All the time.

Faithfulness is not doing something right once but doing something right over and over and over and over.

The work is demanding, the impact everlasting. This is no time for 'summer soldiers' in the army of the Lord.

Don't you *ever* let go?" "I haven't yet." "Why?" "I suppose... because in this world, after everyone panics, there's always got to be someone to tip the wee out of the shoe.

The stuff I do, I do every day, and I've been doing it for long periods of time. I don't start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.

They also swear who only stand and wait.

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

I'm not going anywhere. I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it's over.

We can't cut and run.

There's a phrase, "sitzfleisch", which means just plain sitting on your ass and getting it done. Just showing up for work. My uncle Raphael was a painter, and he used to say, "If the muse is late for work, start without her". You have to be there. You have to be there, and do it, and grind it out, even when it is grinding and you know you're probably going to rewrite all this tomorrow.

It's a very worthy cause. This should happen, and I do believe that tenacity counts. Not going away matters.

The Land of Promise is for those who simply remain to the end.

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

To sustain your belief through situations that completely undermine it is quite something.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

You're either in it for the long haul or you're not.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

When the going gets tough, I'm not always sure what you do. I'm not saying that I know how to fix everything when the going gets tough, but I do know this: when the going goes tough, you don't quit. And you don't fold up. And you don't go in the other direction.