Quotes About Endurance

Never let 'em see you ache. That's what Mr. Mayer used to say. Or was it ass? Never let 'em see your ass.

I suspect that no matter what happens I will allow it to hurt me. Eat away at my insides, as it were—as it will be. As it always has been.

There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind. —Hannah Senesh, poet, playwright, and paratrooper (1921–1944)

As Winston Churchill said, 'Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts

forever. I would never not be Princess Leia. I had no idea how profoundly true that was and how long forever was. They would pay me nothing and fly me economy—a fact that would haunt my mother for months—but I was Leia and that was all that truly mattered. I'm Leia—I can live in a tree, but you can't take that away from me. I never dreamt there actually might be a day when I maybe hoped that you could.

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

I promise you. You will survive this. Feel my hand. It is yours now, my queen. I promise you. I am yours.

If you pass out, I'll put you in my lap and wheel you across the finish line

We all live with our losses. We don't want to, but we can

I'm not much of a distance runner, more of a sprinter.

It's not about surviving. It should be about love. When you know love...that's what makes this life worth it. When you live with it everyday. Wake up with it, hold on to it during the thunder and after a nightmare. When love is your refuge from the death that surrounds us all and when it fills you so tight that you can't express it.

Finding your way home is worth the journey, no matter how far you have to travel or how long it takes.

You died in the end, but you fought first.

But hope stops time, and time only heals when its flow is not stopped.

She still held back her tears, as if subjecting herself to some terrible endurance test.

But hope stops time, and time only heals when it passes.

Sometimes it seems that men--yes, and even women too!--if they believe in a thing strongly enough, they get a strength or endurance that they wouldn't have believe possible.

It really needs to be practised to be understood. We need to say to ourselves a thousand times a day: "Christ wants to do this"; "Christ wants to suffer this." And we shall thus come to realise that when we resent our circumstances or try to spare ourselves what we should undergo, we are being like Peter when he tried to dissuade Our Lord from the Passion

Finishing first is nothing to brag about.

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

Patience, grasshopper," said Maia. "Good things come to those who wait." "I always thought that was 'Good things come to those who do the wave,'" said Simon. "No wonder I've been so confused all my life.

Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

I have a high pain threshold. In fact, it's more of a large and tastfully decorated foyer than a threshold. But I do get easily bored