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Quotes About Endurance

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.
~ Oliver Schreiner
As they say in the RAF: "Any prang you walk away from is a good prang".
~ Olivia Manning
If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.
~ Oprah Winfrey
What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance.
~ Oprah Winfrey
During difficult times I often turn to a gospel song called "Stand." In it, songwriter Donnie McClurkin sings, "What do you do when you've done all you can, and it seems like it's never enough? What do you give when you've given your all, and it seems like you can't make it through?" The answer lies in McClurkin's simple refrain: "You just stand.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Qué hacer cuando ya hiciste todo lo que puedes y parece que nunca es suficiente? ¿Qué más dar cuando te has dado por completo y parece que no lo vas a lograr?". La respuesta está en el coro de McClurkin: "Sólo mantente de pie". Ahí
~ Oprah Winfrey
Maya Angelou was so right. Whatever you're going through, you will do just that: go through it. It will pass. So say thank-you now. Because you know the rainbow is coming.
~ Oprah Winfrey
When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one, I said, amazed at the words I was uttering without preparation. Lovers like us, because they know that nothing can destroy their love, even on the worst days, even when they are heedlessly hurting each other in the cruelest , most deceitful ways, still carry in their hearts a consolation that never abandons them. (p.191)
~ Orhan Pamuk
The knowledge that she could learn to love a man had always meant more to her than loving him effortlessly, more even than falling in love, and that was why she now felt that she was on the threshold of a new life, a happiness bound to endure for a very long time.
~ Orhan Pamuk
But despair is what keeps love alive.
~ Orhan Pamuk
la muerte no es el final de todo, eso seguro. Pero, tal y como está escrito en todos los libros, es algo que produce un dolor increíble.
~ Orhan Pamuk
despair is what keeps love alive.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Hiç vazgeçme bozac?. Bu kuleler, betonlar aras?nda kim al?r deme. Sen hep geç sokaklardan." "Ben k?yamete kadar boza sataca??m," dedi Mevlut.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Life can't be all that bad. Whatever happens, I can always take along the Bosphorus.
~ Orhan Pamuk
The first part of success is Get-to-it-iveness; the second part of success is Stick-to-it-iveness.
~ Orison Swett Marden
You must have birds in your heart, Madam, before you can find them in the bushes
~ Orison Swett Marden
No, there is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Learn to labor and to wait. —Longfellow.
~ Orison Swett Marden
To bear is to conquer fate. —Campbell.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Industry conduces to longevity. It is the ship at the wharf, not the ship at sea, that rots fastest;—the still pool, not the running brook, that stagnates.
~ Orison Swett Marden
Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.
~ Orson Scott Card
I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.
~ Orson Scott Card
I don't give up and I don't wear down. I'm not just rock, I'm diamond .
~ Orson Scott Card
He didn't feel that way about anybody. You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive and lying in bed boo-hooing doesn't help much with that.
~ Orson Scott Card