Quotes About Endurance

It's only a lost cause when everyone gives up on it.

it behooves us old stagers to keep our lamps trimmed and burning to the last, and not trust to the sun's looming. Thoreau, Henry David. The Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau: Canoeing in the Wilderness, Walden, Walking, Civil Disobedience and More (Kindle Locations 12226-12227). . Kindle Edition.

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.

To cheer myself up, I try to remember the difference between short-term and long-term success. Living a good life and making a real mark on society is a marathon, not a sprint.

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional.

Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time." —BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN O

Antibiotics, viral tabs, painkillers, sterilisation spray," Kasyanov said. "Other stuff. Bandages, medicines, contraceptives. Hoop raised an eyebrow. "Hey. Forever is a long time.

The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, repaying itself over and over.

There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.

Sometimes the bravest thing in the world was to sit through the night and feel the cold in your bones.

In many ways he was like America itself, big and strong, full of good intentions, a roll of fat jiggling at his belly, slow of foot but always plodding along, always there when you needed him, a believer in the virtues of simplicity and directness and hard labor.

Courage is nothing to laugh at, not if it is proper courage and exercised by men who know what they do is proper. Proper courage is wise courage. It's acting wisely, acting wisely when fear would have a man act otherwise. It is the endurance of the soul in spite of fear - wisely.

I remember Mitchell Sanders sitting quietly in the shade of an old banyan tree. He was using a thumbnail to pry off the body lice, working slowly, carefully depositing the lice in a blue USO envelope. His eyes were tired. It had been a long two weeks in the bush. After an hour or so he sealed up the envelope, wrote FREE in the upper right-hand corner, and addressed it to his draft board in Ohio.

Courage was not always a matter of yes or no. Sometimes it came in degrees, like the cold; sometimes you were very brave up to a point and then beyond that point you were not so brave.

Sometimes the bravest thing on Earth was to sit through the night and feel the cold in your bones.

They endured. They kept humping. They did not submit to the obvious alternative, which was simply to close the eyes and fall. So easy, really.

The bad stuff never stops happening: it lives in its own dimension, replaying itself over and over.

A man with the right kind of power can be immortal by means of it, if he takes care to live on the sea.

twenty, thirty paces without stopping or turning — that was

Is it the war that's done it to you? It's all war, she said. What is? I don't know. Everythin. Raisin a family, keepin yer head above water. Life. War is our natural state.

He held his ground like a sweet gum stump trying hard to live in a spirit of love and action, not anger and reaction

Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic.

Courage wasn't a matter of taking the whole mountain in a single massive leap. Courage was taking it one step at a time, doing what was necessary now, preparing for the next step, and refusing to worry about whether some step in the future would be the one that would break him.

Then I am alone, he told himself. I am the last of the Jedi.