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Quotes About Endurance

Undrape! you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded, I see through the broadcloth and gingham whether or no, And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless, and cannot be shaken away.
~ Walt Whitman
Tenderly, be not impatient, (Strong is your hold O mortal flesh, Strong is your hold O love.)
~ Walt Whitman
I do not snivel that snivel the world over, That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth, That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.
~ Walt Whitman
Say on, sayers! sing on, singers! Delve! mould! pile the words of the earth! Work on, age after age, nothing is to be lost, It may have to wait long, but it will certainly come in use, When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.
~ Walt Whitman
To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do. Me imperturbe
~ Walt Whitman
Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for contingencies, To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.
~ Walt Whitman
Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost... ...Ample are time and space—ample the fields of Nature. The body, sluggish, aged, cold—the embers left from earlier fires, The light in the eye grown dim, shall duly flame again;
~ Walt Whitman
In vain the razor-bill'd auk sails far north to Labrador
~ Walt Whitman
You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me" You lingering sparse leaves of me on winter-nearing boughs, And I some well-shorn tree of field or orchard-row; You tokens diminute and lorn—(not now the flush of May, or July clover-bloom—no grain of August now;) You pallid banner-staves—you pennants valueless—you overstay'd of time, Yet my soul-dearest leaves confirming all the rest, The faithfulest—hardiest—last.
~ Walt Whitman
Worse and worse...Can't you stand it? Are you retreating? Is this hour with the living too dead for you?
~ Walt Whitman
Vago en un viatge perpetu. Tot avança, progressa, res no s'esfondra.
~ Walt Whitman
Yeah, it's hard, baby It's hard right down to the bone I said Oh, it's hard baby It's hard right down to the very bone It's hard when you're a woman And you find yourself all alone I've been flapping and scrapping And running from door to door You know I've been flapping and scrapping, honey Running from door to door
~ Walter Dean Myers
My friends, in these desperate times we must use every weapon we have...You must understand that patience can be a weapon.
~ Walter Dean Myers
People who were not crushed ended up being stronger.
~ Walter Isaacson
My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was secondary.
~ Walter Isaacson
There was a lonely intensity to him, reflected in his love of long-distance running and biking.
~ Walter Isaacson
Jobs's ambition was to build a company that would endure, and he asked Markkula what the formula for that would be. Markkula replied that lasting companies know how to reinvent themselves. Hewlett-Packard had done that repeatedly; it started as an instrument company, then became a calculator company, then a computer company.
~ Walter Isaacson
He held himself back for a while, but not for long.
~ Walter Isaacson
By late February 2009 Jobs had secured a place on the Tennessee list (as well as the one in California), and the nervous waiting began. He was declining rapidly by the first week in March, and the waiting time was projected to be twenty-one days. "It was dreadful," Powell recalled. "It didn't look like we would make it in time." Every day became more excruciating. He moved up to third on the
~ Walter Isaacson
And man is capable of standing superhuman suffering if only he feels sure that there is some point and purpose to it, while much less pain will seem intolerable of devoid of meaning.
~ Walter Kaufmann
I think that the power over death and life is the greatest strength that any person can have. It trumps sex and wealth. If I'm willing to die no one can master me.
~ Walter Mosley
Most of human life is defined by waiting
~ Walter Mosley
You know love is true when it survives the devastation it causes.
~ Walter Mosley
Jackson couldn't fly straight down if you threw him off a cliff.
~ Walter Mosley