I wonder how many battles have been won because someone held their ground?
Yes, I understand that winning is often seen as advancing — taking something from your opponent.
But there’s a very real sense when winning is all about not giving way … not letting your opponent take something from you.
At that point, when your adversary is trying to advance, holding your ground is winning.
Holding your ground is declaring, “You see this? This is mine and you can’t have it. I am not backing down. I am not giving up. And you are not getting past me, either.”
Sometimes holding your ground is literal — a battle for a hill or a beach or a boundary line.
And sometimes holding your ground is figurative. You’re fighting for a belief or a value or a right.
Literal or figurative, both are worth defending. Both are worth holding your ground for … realizing that the “win” might take time and might not always be about forward motion.
In Others’ Words: Where are you holding your ground today? What helps you hold your ground now so you can win a little more later?
In Others' Words: Hold Your Ground https://buff.ly/2JYyZsP #persevere #quotes Click To Tweet 'Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.' Quote by Louis L'Amour https://buff.ly/2JYyZsP #victory #persevere Click To Tweet
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That’s another good post and I’m surprised (but pleased) that Louis L’Amour was the author. Today I’m holding my ground by dealing with re-organizing a now (mostly) renovated kitchen. Things were not packed up in any kind ofo order and there is a layer of plaster dust over almost every item. Plus a house guest arrives tonight who has flown in from Alaska to be seen at the Mayo Clinic for post-open heart surgery. He is a long-standing friend of my sons, I’ll be glad to meet him, but the house…. Yes, persevering inch by inch.
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Dee:
I’m often surprised when I look and see who said a certain quote.That’s part of the fun.
May your day go smoothly — may you find both extra strength, extra time, and know what to do and what to let go.
True victory lies in doing one’s best under all circumstances…and the more hopeless the situation, the more important it is.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote of a cellmate in the Gulag, an Army officer who made a point of being as neat and polite as he could be, and of exercising and keeping the spitis of others up…despite having been sentenced to death.
The biggest victory is that over despair.
Argh…’spirits’, not ‘spitis’
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Andrew:
There’s much truth in what you say — perseverance comes in all forms.
And typos happen. Believe me, I know.