Quotes About Endurance

Getting up and putting on your shoes after a disaster is a badge of honor." -- Dr. Thomas Demaria

Laurie Paige

I cannot imagine a world in which one can read Jane Austen only once.

Men might come and go, but Jane Austen was always there.

I dance but I also work out. I run, do strength training... you name it. I've got to!

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got

Valley's don't last forever... Neither did mountaintops of life, but if a person just had faith and held on, each valley would eventually end.

Valleys don't last forever. Neither did the mountaintops of life, but if a person just had faith and held on, each valley would eventually end.

Wildlife can absorb adversity that would destroy a human without a blink.

There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for the most elementary reason of all. I didn't want to feel what I was feeling, and a voice within was telling me that I needed a drink, that I couldn't bear it without it. But that voice is a liar. You can always bear the pain. It'll hurt, it'll burn like acid in an open wound, but you can stand it. And, as long as you can make yourself go on choosing the pain over the relief, you can keep going.

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

I didn't know that painters and writers retired. They're like soldiers – they just fade away.

Survival must be the highest objective; otherwise nothing could be achieved.

El tiempo que transcurre sin hacer nada ofensivo se acumula en el crédito del defensor».

Kutuzov told Prince Andrei that "time and patience are the strongest warriors.

The relationships that we have with writers are quite a thing; they're different from the ones we have with actors or musicians or composers or politicians. Everything for me is the writer; without him, I don't exist. So he is first. The actor gets all the fame and glory, but I don't know about endurance.

The game's not over until it's over.

There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

Even monkeys fall out of trees.

Despair speaks evenly, in a quiet voice.

Men who fight wars in winter don't live till spring.