Quotes About Endurance

His shortcoming is his long staying.

A thick skin is a gift from God.

The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

The most important thing in marriage is not happiness, but stability.

Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.

I survived. (J'ai vecu.)

To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

Those lose least who have least to lose.

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

It isn't important to come out on top, what matters is to be the one who comes out alive.

I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.

Conquer but never triumph.

Oh, yes. I'd do it all again; the spirit is willing yet; I feel the same desire to do the work but the flesh is weak. It's too bad that our bodies wear out while our interests are just as strong as ever.

Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

Waiting is one of the great arts.

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

Others may argue about whether the world ends with a bang or a whimper. I just want to make sure mine doesn't end with a whine.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality, but not too much unintermit-tent gloom.

Despair is criminal.

Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to dust.

Don't give up the ship!