Quotes About Endurance

Kissing don't last; cookery do!

Only time will set you free, just like me

There is nothing personal in the fact that they ignore you: they are simply Miltonists. All English shop assistants are Miltonists. A Miltonist firmly believes that 'they also serve who only stand and wait.

Even the finest of jugglers cannot keep a hundred balls in the air forever.

Sacrifice is never easy or it is no true sacrifice. - Stannis

I learned how to die a long time ago.

Even a man who had survived a hundred battle can break in his hundred-and-first.

Because I've never died, I am immortal.

When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.

Every flight begins with a fall.

I want to weep , she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that's all …a day … an hour ... ...One day, she promised herself as she lay abed, one day she would allow herself to be less than strong. But not today. It could not be today.

The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong.

The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling. (Varys)

Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it.

What's dead may never die.

Too stupid to learn and too stupid to give up.

No fight is hopeless till it has been fought.

You mistake patience for forbearance.

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.

The sea is never weary. I must be as tireless.

Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That's my main concern, and always will be.

I have climbed these steps so often I know each one by name.

No one mocked him in his bedchamber, but he would not live his life in bed.

George R.R. Martin