Quotes About Endurance

He was standing with the wind at his back, like that mule, and he felt he could stand there indefinitely, maybe forever, like a fence post or a tree. It took a great deal of energy to be a human being, and the more the wind blew and the sun moved southwest, the less energy Tayo had.

Their mouths were wet and soured with beer, and when they pushed themselves down on her, they felt small and soft between her thighs. She stared at the stains on the ceiling, and waited until they gave up or fell asleep, and then she rolled out from under them.

Josiah said that only humans had to endure anything, because only humans resisted what they saw outside themselves. Animals did not resist. But they persisted, because they became part of the wind. (...) So they moved with the snow, became part of the snowstorm which drifted up against the trees and fences. And when they died, frozen solid against a fence, with the snow drifted around their heads? "Ah, Tayo," Josiah said, "the wind convinced them they were the ice.

Suffering toughens the spirit and tenderizes the soul.

They say weight training is good for you and helps you be healthier. Not hard to do, given the older I get, the more years I carry.

Doing nothing is very hard to do–you never know when you're finished.

The Dream of Egypt was Eternity: her odors have the solidity of granite, and endure as long. I

Against both of these temptations the New Testament warns us with its insistent call for a patient hope, a hope which is — on the one hand — confident and sure, an anchor of the soul, and on the other hand patient and enduring.

Mary Keitany from Kenya won the women's race at the New York City Marathon. You can tell she was fast because guys on the street didn't even have time to finish their catcalls.

We cannot go through life strong and fresh on constant express trains with ten minutes for lunch: we must have quiet hours, secret places of the Most High, times of waiting upon the Lord, when we renew our strength and learn to mount up on wings as eagles, and then come back to run and not be weary, and to walk and not faint.

No one wins the greatest victory until he has walked the winepress of woe.

Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him (Ps. 37:7).

Keep still! When trouble is brewing, keep still! When slander is getting on its legs, keep still! When your feelings are hurt, keep still till you recover from your excitement at any rate! Things look different through an unagitated eye.

To be as immovable as a pillar in the house of our God, is an end for which one would gladly endure all the shakings that may be necessary to bring us there! HANNAH WHITALL SMITH

But let us never forget that the source of helping other people must be victorious suffering.

The problem of getting great things from God is being able to hold on for the last half hour.

Comfort your heart with the fact that the Savior has Himself experienced all the trials He asks you to endure; He would not ask you to pass through them unless He was sure that the paths were not too difficult or strenuous for you

Fatigue meant nothing when you actually wanted to suffer.

What is written with a sword cannot be erased.

She didn't mind if she died trying. Suicide was in everything she did now, and everything she thought. Suicide was her home: if she could find nothing else, then suicide would always have her.

A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength.

Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up. Fatigue meant nothing when you actually wanted to suffer.

never-ending game of tag, where everyone else was it and you could never stop running.

Er zijn in het leven weinig omstandigheden waaraan de mens niet went, vooral wanneer hij ziet dat iedereen in zijn omgeving ze aanvaardt.