Quotes About Endurance

over several weeks, so during that

asks us to endure. Thus I would suggest that you

Just because the circumstances might be almost intolerable does not mean there are not moments when the light shines in.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: "A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days.

She had learned, long ago and in the intervening years when she was apart from all she loved, that to endure the most troubling times she had to break down time itself--one carefully crafted stitch after the other. If consideration of what the next hour might hold had been too difficult, then she thought only of another half and hour.

Wolfgang von Goethe: "A man can stand anything, except a succession of ordinary days.

But then we remembered. What did time matter when one was on an endless voyage?... And so we resigned ourselves and cultivated the virtue of patience. Only then did I notice that my back had begun hurting again.

Para pedir la fuerza de poder vivir sin belleza, sin fuerza y sin deseo, mientras seguimos juntos hasta morir en paz, los dos, como dicen que mueren los que han amado mucho.

James A. Connor

James A. Michener

with a piece of frontier advice long tested in the crucible of practicality:

We are mankind because we survive. We do it in a half-assed way, but we do it.

Most important fact of war? Keep your army in existence. Lose the battle, but keep your eye on winning the war." But

I think the idea of simply enduring to the end is a terrible philosophy and an awful way to live one's life. How you spend your days is how you live your life, and if you're spending them enduring anything then you're doing it wrong.

for weakness cannot persist in a power evolving universe.

In this path, as in no different, is the regulation absolute that He that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened; for most effective through endurance, practice, and ceaseless importunity can a man enter the Door of the Temple of Knowledge.

They do not know the darkness and the heartaches; they only see the light and joy, and call it luck; do not see the long and arduous journey, but only behold the pleasant goal, and call it good fortune; do not understand the process, but only perceive the result, and call it chance.

He who masters the small becomes the rightful possessor of the great.

privations;

It may be that you are in the employ of a tyrannous master or mistress, and you feel that you are harshly treated. Look upon this also as necessary to your training. Return your employer's unkindness with gentleness and forgiveness.

There is no lazy way to Truth. He who would stand upon the mountain's summit must strenuously climb, and must rest only to gather strength. But if the climbing is less glorious than the cloudless summit, it is still glorious. Discipline in itself is beautiful, and the end result of discipline is sweet.

Prosperity, to be stable and enduring, must rest on a solid foundation of moral principle, and be supported by the adamantine pillars of sterling character and moral worth.

unchastened

As Mac Lethal said to me, "Nobody remembers your bad stuff, just keep working at it and you'll put out good stuff and that's what they will see and remember.