Quotes About Endurance

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was. (Enoch Root observes six-year-old Isaac Newton)

Godspeed? Godspeed! What kind of a thing is that to say to a fucking galley slave?

Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. I been holed up in this place long enough.

One of the soldiers slapped Gansukh on the legs with the shaft of his spear, and the Mongol warrior rolled away from the blow, getting his legs under him. Even though Gansukh didn't understand a word of what was being said, the message was clear. Clenching his teeth, Gansukh wobbled to his feet, and as he stood upright, one of the other soldiers whacked him across the back, causing him to stumble and nearly fall.

So in order to accommodate the Pioneers who would begin arriving in a few weeks, the Arkitects sent up Scouts. The qualifications for being a Scout seemed to be a shocking level of physical endurance, a complete disregard for mortal danger, and some knowledge of how to exist in a space suit. All of them were Russians.

It's like putting on crampons and trying to walk through a room full of puppies.

But that was one of those errands that, if not achieved in the first twelve hours, would remain undone centuries later.

Dr. Emanuel Lagos.

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Death itself was always quick, Raphael reflected, staring off at the distant horizon. It is the survivors who feel pain the longest.

Four-fifths of the world's people consider life a trial, a tribulation, a time of testing, a karmic debt that must be paid, a school with harsh lessons that must be learned, and, in general, an experience to be endured while awaiting the real joy, which is after death. It is a shame that so many of you think this way.

Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner. Dr. Mahmoud leans in. Life is managed.

So you're just going to give up? That's the plan.

No, we don't walk away. But when we're holding on to something precious, we run. We run and run, fast as we can, and we don't stop running until we are out from under the shadow.

From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.

Never have so many given so much for so long for so little for so few for so seldom.

True endurance, I think, comes from the inside. It comes from motivation and belief in what you're doing.

It is always a painful process and often a most discouraging one. The process continues until all that can be shaken is removed and only those things which cannot be shaken remain. Through this shaking the deliverance for which we prayed is accomplished. Through it all, we will be brought into the secure place for which we long."3

While being reviled, [Jesus] did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously (1 Peter 2:23).

Nelson DeMille

of themselves. At least until the next glacier came through. Sloan looked up from his newspaper, apparently

Nelson DeMille

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Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower, we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.