Quotes About Endurance

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Be patient and keep faith. It will all fall into place.

All the things that are worth doing, take time.

It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.

Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great.

Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly.

Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

A tree, freshly rooted, may be pulled up by one man on his own. Give it time, and it will not be moved, even with a crane

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

Swallow what's bitter in the cup and move on.

May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.

No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.

The wisdom to quit is all we have left.