Quotes About Endurance

Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.

Walking was her only hope. A slender hope, but all she had. So she put one foot in front of the other. And walked.

twice. "On the ninth day the

Imagine penguins and sea leopards outlasting the whole works. Well, probably they deserve to. Especially penguins. I don't think they ever hurt anybody.

So now I know what I have to do. I have to keep breathing. And tomorrow the sun will rise, and who knows what the tide will bring in.

Everything that man esteemsEndures a moment or a day.Love's pleasure drives his love away,The painter's brush consumes his dreams.

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O. When may it suffice?

To long a sacrifice can make a stone of a heart

Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. Oh, when may it suffice?

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Both men lost speech in their last days and hours. Both died at age sixty-three, Lee long since weary of life, and Grant ready to live it again. Their war made them national icons, and their war reputations dictated the balance of their lives, careers, and posterity.

If he give me credit for being a plodder he will describe me justly. Anything beyond that will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

Yea, and so abundant were they in the three first centuries, that ten years constant and almost universal persecution under Dioclesian, could neither root out the Christians, nor prejudice their cause.

Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.

Love lasteth long as the money endureth.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent

The darkest day if you live till tomorrow will have past away.

Life, much like so many athletic events, is largely a game of recovery.

If it should happen you wake up and Armageddon has come, lie still.

The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.

I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.

People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance.

A gentleman can live through anything.

Too much happens…. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything…. That's what's so terrible.