Quotes About Endurance

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

His spirit is like a guttering candle

Geraldine Brooks

And yet some memories cannot be rooted out like weeds, no matter how much one wills to do it.

And he'd grown as a cactus grows, bitter and prickly and tough enough to survive what came his way.

David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.

saddleback fever.

Geraldine Brooks

I understood that where Michael Mompellion had been broken by our shared ordeal, in equal measure I had been tempered and made strong.

These nineteenth-century horses were stronger and healthier, capable of massive endurance as well as thrilling speed. They ran four miles, you know—heats—up to three times in a single day. They were tough.

I give a patient God My patient heart.

Later, when he was able to grasp it between shaking hands and pour a trickle into his mouth, the pain of swallowing made him pass out again. In his dreams, he was once again bound on the sloping ladder, the water cascading into his mouth, his own involuntary swallowing pulling the narrow length of linen farther and farther into his gut.

These things happen. It is not the end of the world.

No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.

Not, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee;Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of manIn me or, most weary, cry I can no more. I can;Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.

NOT, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee; Not untwist—slack they may be—these last strands of man In me ór, most weary, cry I can no more. I can; Can something, hope, wish day come, not choose not to be.

No, I'll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee

Rabbit, I am alive. I breathe, and I move, so I am alive. Is that clear? Whatever ordeals are yet to come, I am alive.

Het was verschrikkelijk, zeker, maar er was al zoveel verschrikkelijks in mijn leven gebeurd dat ik - hoe, dat zoude wel altijd een raadsel blijven - had overleefd en doorstaan... Misschien kon dit er nog net bij...

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion by maintained by it.

A sound that continues. A sun that's always shining. Everything stays the same. Nothing changes.

no matter how bad life gets, no matter how sometimes things seem to turn on you and make it seem like there's no longer any hope, don't forget that you always have THIS (Sunset) to look forward to at the end of every single day. Look at it, Jake. Right there is peace. And freedom. And there's nothing in this world that can touch it.

out of darkness i come, a woman. and on i go and on.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.