Quotes About Endurance

Vessels knocked together for hour upon hour, like bones, like someone infinitely stupid and patient at the door of an empty house.

I didn't move: I had no moving left in me.

Ilse Aichinger, "The Bound Man

If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through

Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.

To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping

One step at a time is good walking.

A true warrior, like tea, shows his strength in hot water.

If you are patient in a moment of anger, you will escape one hundred days of sorrow.

Be not afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still.

Be the first to the field and the last to the couch.

Enough shovels of earth ..........................a mountain. Enough pails of water ...............................a river.

Fall down seven times, get up eight. Japanese Proverb

One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows.

Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character.

Pure gold does not fear furnace.

There will be winter, there will be cold, there will be snowstorms, but then there will be spring.. Agian..

Our negative life situations are essential elements for us to fulfill our intended destiny. However, unless we possess the power of endurance to live through the dark of the night, we will not see the glory of daybreak.

As the Chinese proverb goes, 'Real gold does not fear the test of fire.

Death is tolerable only when it leads again to life.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

I keep telling Chris that life is simpler that way. Much simpler. Stop looking back over your shoulder, I tell him. There ain't no deliverer running just a little behind schedule. March to the stake like a man and take the bullet in your chest. Much simpler.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

The promise of stretching is not success, it's learning. It's self-insight. It's the promise of gleaning the answers to some of the most important and vexing questions of our lives: What do we want? What can we do? Who can we be? What can we endure?