Quotes About Endurance

There he dwelt, a prisoner acting like a kind.

Oak bark, spider silk, ground moss, saltweed— grip close, bind tight, hold fast, close up, bar the door, lock the gate, stiffen the blood-wall, dry the gore-flood.

The strength was draining out of him minute by minute. Maybe he'd never move again.

She felt half inclined to lie down and die. But her body wanted food and drink, and she took this as a sign that her body at least wanted to go on living.

Life is hard, Mr Scoresby, but we cling to it all the same.

As long as I live. As long as I live...

Suppose it never stops? she whispered. The gyptian man didn't say it'd do that. Just that there was going to be a flood. It feels as if it's going on forever. There isn't enough water in all the world to do that. Eventually it'll stop and the sun'll come out. Every flood stops in the end and goes down.

Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.

All she could do was hope, and she kept trying to do that in spite of the fear and loneliness.

Love makes us suffer. But this task of ours is greater than revenge. Remember that.

I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration — it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation. It's just like baseball: you fail two-thirds of the time." He went on: "I can't face any more days when I write five pages and throw them away. I can't do that anymore. --New York Times, 18 Nov. 2012

It's amazing how much punishment we can take.

There is no life without patience.

Anybody can run away and survive, the trick was to stay and survive

Enduring tedium over real time in a confined space is what real courage is

Dejó de beber. Eso lo mató. No podía soportarlo, pero lo había prometido

Impatience can be fatal.

Hella isn't easy, but Captain Skyler says life isn't easy. If it were easy, everybody would do it. Death is what you do if you're not up for the challenge.

It's the grass, the tall smothering stiff grass. It always wins. Knock it down, it comes back. Burn it, it comes back. The grass is forever.

He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding as accepting the inevitability of it.

It ate at whatever was warm nearby, and then the coldness settled in permanently. You learned to live with it

We must conserve our strengths for the battles we can win.

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

Kegigihan adalah kekuatan yang tidak kelihatan, yang bisa menyingkirkan rintangan-rintangan besar.