Quotes About Endurance

With whose imperfections will you bear, and what insult are you capable of enduring, if a thoughtless word from your own Superior is unbearable?

Strength is Life, Weakness is Death".

Nothing can shake him, no temptation or anything.

it is only those who persevere to the end that succeed.

The success sometimes may come immediately, but we must be ready to wait patiently even for what may look like an infinite length of time. The student who sets out with such a spirit of perseverance will surely find success and realisation at last.

Hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more. . . . There is infinite life before the soul. Take your time and you will achieve your end.

What breaks in a moment may take years to mend.

Coach Wooden's philosophy is for players and students to improve a little every day and make perfection the goal. His method for improving conditioning included one painful demand—each player, when reaching the point of exhaustion, was to push himself beyond. When this is done every day, top condition will be attained over time.

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

you are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.

His head was barely above water, and he'd never welcomed drowning so much in his whole damn life.

I want you forever, not just for tonight.

I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting.

The heart ages last.

The end of health or of vigor is sad. [p. 149]

Everybody manages one way or another; everyone who is alive and reading this book has managed.

Often, it is the thought that pain will never end that makes it seem unbearable.

not doing anything to change experience but rather discovering that experience is bearable.

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave-Dakota Indian proverb

People get over love. They can live without it, they can move on. Love can be lost and found again. But that won't happen for me. I won't survive you, Eva.

I wrap my mind around pain till it smothers in its own scream. (101)

And here am I, she thought, fixed in the religious life like a candle on a spike. I consume, I burn away, always lighting the same corner, always beleaguered by the same shadows; and in the end I shall burn out and another candle will be fixed in my stead.

I cannot but think that he who finds a certain proportion of pain and evil inseparably woven up in the life of the very worms, will bear his own share with more courage and submission.

She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.