Quotes About Endurance

fame is everlasting!

Look, winning and losing can't be quantified. They are states of mind, and losing happens only when you give up. Seen that way, then, the world can be filled with winners, and there is room for them all.

It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion

Whip us 'till we're on the floor, we'll turn around and ask for more, we're Phèdre's Boys! We like to hurt, we like to bleed, daily floggings do we need, we're Phèdre's Boys! Man or woman, we don't care, give us twins we'll take the pair! We're Phèdre's Boys! ...But just because we let you beat us, doesn't mean you can defeat us, we're Phèdre's Boys!

To my surprise, Joscelin rose. 'Phedre-' He began, then halted. Sitting below him, I watched him smile to himself, quiet and private. 'Phedre yields with a willow's grace,' he said softly. 'And endures with the strength of mountains. Without her, life would be calm; and yet lack all meaning.

Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.

And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear.

Those that yield are not always weak

Merely surviving without doing harm seemed chore enough.

In the desert we say Make haste slowly.

That which yields, is not always weak. Choose your victories wisely.

To, co se podvolí, není vždycky slabé.

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart.

How he did it, I do not know, for by then the cold and exhaustion were so deep in my bones that I could barely think. It wasn't until he returned, hollow-eyed, that I realized he was worse off than I. It is a strange thing, human endurance.

How could anyone endure what we had known and still be capable of so much goodness?

There were barbs on the words, his formal address. I endured them in silence and watched him go, leaving me alone with the remorseless pleasure of my pain.

É mais duro ver outro sofrer do que suportarmos nós o sofrimento.

That which yields is not always weak

Sbagliare e perseverare è una prova più dura di qualsiasi battaglia.

One does not reckon, at such times, the cost to one's limbs and joints; there is a limit to the pliancy of the mortal form.

We had survived the prison, the plain and the loss of all hope, but the women had discovered that survival is no more than putting off the moment of death

you don't build endurance by pushing yourself beyond your limits.

Me parecía que ese dolor nunca se calmaría, que había tomado posesión de mí de una vez por todas, que me impediría definitivamente consagrarme a algo que no fuera ese dolor, y lo aceptaba.

sobrevivir solo es postergar el momento de morir