Quotes About Endurance

She sat like patience on a monument smiling at grief.

The night is long that never finds the day.

I am to wait, though waiting so be hell. Sonnet 58.13

Ay, while you live, draw your neck out o' the collar.

Invinge durerea, razi cat se poate, caci tot la zi ajunge si cea mai lunga noapte...

What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes.

I pray thee, peace. I will be flesh and blood, For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently, However they have writ the style of gods And made a push at chance and sufferance.

If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last, When other petty griefs have done their spite, But in the onset come: so shall I taste At first the very worst of fortune's might; And other strains of woe, which now seem woe, Compar'd with loss of thee will not seem so.

What is love? 'tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure. In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty; Youth's a stuff will not endure.

Welcome the sour cup of prosperity! Affliction may one day smile again, and till then, Sit thee down, sorrow!

Woe doth the heavier sit where it perceives it is but faintly borne.

Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world Have so incensed that I am reckless

And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

In the absence of hope we must still struggle to survive, and so we do - by the skin of our teeth.

It was as if this man whom they had all so greatly admired, and who had endured so much at the hands of the Nazis -a man of exemplary resilience and courage- had by his suicide demonstrated a frailty, a crumbling of character they were loath to accept.

You're indestructible, Preacher. I fully expect that forty or fifty years from now, you'll still be

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Kill 'em all 'cept six. Save them for pallbearers.

Sometimes it seemed that work was the only certainty, the only lasting truth in a human world of fitful change. Work and the mountains remained.

If strength was what was called for, then she could be strong. She would be stout enough to carry every day as it came.

Give up!" Grandpa barked. "Now I don't want to hear you say that. No, sir, that's the last thing I want to hear. Don't ever start anything you can't finish.