Quotes About Endurance

Life may seem disastrous, but keep your head up; it always gets better when you have hope.

Victoria Hislop

We are born, we suffer, we love, we die, but the waves continue to beat upon the rocks; the seed time and the harvest come and go, but the earth remains.

But I think I understand now what Shackleton said yesterday, how hero is not always doing something grand. It's when things get so bad, and you keep on anyway.

Death would hurt only for a moment, which was not so bad when one considered how much, and for how long, life hurt.

Always resent, never relent.

They lived in this fashion for most of the year before the credit line of her patience finally reached its limit.

This was what few people realize—it's hard work to beat somebody. I have known many an interrogator who has strained a back, pulled a muscle, torn a tendon or a ligament, even broken fingers, toes, hands, and feet, not to mention going hoarse.

We lie in wait for the right moment and the just cause, which, at this moment, is simply wanting to live.

cheered by the optimism that one sometimes had at the beginning of strenuous exercise, a kind of helium that filled our lungs and carried us along

By now the only part of me not seating were my eyeballs... An X-ray of my skull would have shown a hamster running furiously in an exercise wheel...

Death would only hurt for a moment, which was not so bad when one considered how much, and for how long, life hurt.

At last! Death would hurt only for a moment, which was not so bad when one considered how much, and for how long, life hurt.

She wondered what, if anything, she knew about love. Not much, perhaps, but enough to know that what she would do for him now she would do again tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that. She would read out loud, from the beginning. She would read with measured breath, to the very end. She would read as if every letter counted, page by page and word by word.

Running is not only a great way to exercise but also one of the best forms of mind-body therapies there is.

It is a destiny of a woman to suffer in silence.

The future is simple. The future is simple, I can hold it i the palm of my hand; and the present is just a matter of endurance, detachment, and a sense of humor.

Disappointment is stronger than a thousand of you.

How rarely these few years, as work keeps up aloof, Or fares, or one thing or another, How we had days to spend under our parents' roof; Myself, my sister, and my brother. All five of us will die; to reckon from the past This flesh and blood is unforgiving. What's hard is that just one of us will be the last To bear it all and go on living.

Don't strike the iron while it is hot, but keep striking it until it is hot.

Fall down seven times stand up eight. - Could anyone show me how?

He who wears a smile instead of worrying is always the strongest.

No matter if you walk like a turtle until you don't stop.

One who is not moved by words is rarely moved by the stick.