Quotes About Endurance

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

All human life has its seasons, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent: winter, after all, does not last forever, does it? There

In conservation, the motto should always be 'never say die'.

There are only three things that America will be remembered for 2000 years from now when they study this civilization: The Constitution, Jazz music, and Baseball. These are the 3 most beautiful things this culture's ever created.

And, in the end, I knew there was nothing better in life than keeping the head and the heart up—and when you cannot see the shoreline, always putting one hand, one word, in front of the other.

literature and opera are full of characters who die for love: i stay alive for her. - Excerpt from "No Longer A Teenager

I must be alive," Gawain said hoarsely. "Dead doesn't hurt this much.

evil will never permanently triumph.

Good yield does not come without suffering, it does not come without struggle, and toil, and yes, loss.

Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.

Systems die; instincts remain.

Injustice never rules forever.

He laughs best who laughs last.

This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; That surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.

Life only demands from the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

It is not true that life is one damn thing after another- it's one damn thing over and over.

No one is to be despaired of as long as he breathes. (While there is life there is hope.)

Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.

Joy is the will which labors, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

He laughs best whose laugh lasts.

At the end of what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.