Quotes About Endurance

I could have been stronger," she said. "I wasn't enough to keep something so important.

Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it.

remember that every fire will burn itself out, even without your help.

Things break all the time. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Promises break. Hearts break.

Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.

As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.

Motherhood is a Sisyphean task. You finish sewing one seam shut, and another rips open. I have come to believe that this life I'm wearing will never really fit.

It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.

A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.

I think that you can love more than one person in a lifetime. There's the one who teaches you what love is, even if it doesn't last. … And then there's the one who makes you a better human than you were, even as you do the same form him. … And then there's the last one ... The one that you never get enough time with. But who sees you through to the end.

I don't get to rewrite my story; I just have to stumble to the end of it.

Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.

You get through it, you just never get over it

The human capacity for burden is like a bamboo - far more flexible than youd ever believe at first glance.

When you can't see light at the end of the tunnel, it's hard to remember to keep going.

According to Darwin's Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself. —Leon C. Megginson

There is a reason people say being a mother is the hardest job in the world: You do not sleep and you do not get vacation time. You do not leave your work on your desk at the end of the day. Your briefcase is your heart, and you are rifling through it constantly. Your office is as wide as the world, and your punch card is measured not in hours but in a lifetime.

When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.

Embrace the pain to inherit the gain.

Happiness, honor, and great estate, For those who patiently work and wait.

Your trials equal the power of God that works in you. If your battles are intense, then what God has deposited in you is deep.

One play down and 497 to Go!

Persistence and passion will make you invincible.

Long term sustainability requires relentless endurance and gratitude in all your efforts.