Quotes About Endurance

While there's life there's hope, and only the dead have none.

By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.

Nothing would give up life:Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.

Tugging all day at perverse life:The indignity of it!

I do not laugh; I do not cry; I'm sweating out the will to die. My past is sliding down the drain; I soon will be myself again.

Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.

There has never yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

We are not building this country of ours for a day. It is to last through the ages.

Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.

The problems differ from generation to generation, but the qualities needed to solve them remain unchanged from world's end to world's end

Haz lo que puedas, con lo que tengas, donde estés

There has not yet been a person in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

nearly forty hours in the saddle, changing horses five times

I have never believed it did any good to flinch or yield to any blow, nor does it lighten the blow to cease from working.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.

A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.

Suffering is the common lot of man.