One stormy night a boat could make no headway, and while the captain was struggling to get into port, a nervous passenger said to him: "Do you think we will get in all right?" He replied: "This is a leaky old boat, and we may go down; and the boilers are not in very good condition, so we may go up. But, whatever happens, we are going on."
The old song by CW Naylor and Andrew Byers says,
“I mean to go right on until the crown is won;
I mean to fight the fight of faith till life on earth is done.
I’ll nevermore turn back, defeat I shall not know,
for God will give me victory if onward I shall go
Should opposition come, should foes obstruct my way,
Should persecutions fires be lit as in the ancient day;
With Jesus by my side, His peace within my soul,
No matter if the battle’s hot, I mean to win the goal”