Quotes About Endurance

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter.

her patience was, perhaps, tired out; for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise.

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Es gibt mehr Leute, die kapitulieren, als solche, die scheitern.

Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.

If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.

Konrad Adenauer became Chancellor of the new Federal Republic of Germany at the age of seventy-three, an age by which Bismarck's career was nearing its end.

Russian rulers appealed to their people on the basis of their endurance, not their greatness. Russian diplomacy relied, to an extraordinary extent, on superior power. Russia rarely had allies among countries where it had not stationed military forces. Russian diplomacy tended to be power-oriented, tenaciously holding on to fixed positions and transforming foreign policy into trench warfare.

Grey eyes that grow sadder than sunset or rain, Fond heart that is ever more true Firm faith that grows firmer for watching in vain--- She'll wait by the sliprails for you.

How are you feeling?' I asked. 'Fine,' he replied with a tired smile. 'Well done!' I replied, as I think patients need to be congratulated for their surviving just as much as the surgeons should be congratulated for doing their job well. 'It's

Life, by its very nature, is reluctant to end. It is as though we are hardwired for hope, to always feel that we have a future.

Një mjek i mirë duhet t'u flasë të dy qenieve kontradiktore brenda pacientit që po vdes – pjesës që e di që po vdes dhe asaj që shpreson se do të rrojë ende.

The year wears away—the last year it is too—and I find myself near graduation, with every prospect of success. And from the beginning to the close my life has been one not of trouble, persecution, or punishment, but one of isolation only.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

I'll be here tomorrow If I can make it through today.

You can still function as a living ruin.

I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.

Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.

Life will not break your heart. It will crush it.

You can only take me so low. After that it just doesn't hurt anymore. Your words and blows lose meaning and effect. You lose control of the situation. I can withstand any beating you can administer effortlessly but would die from receiving. How? I have waited. I have paid. I have scarred myself crawling through the guts of the machine, seeing how it works.

I have gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain.

It wasn't until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking, I know more about myself. When something gets bad, I know it can't be as bad as that workout.

I don't have talent, I have tenacity.