Quotes About Endurance

To be a minister,' said Luther, 'is nothing else but to derive the world's wrath and fury upon himself.

Every soul clad with this armour of God shall stand and persevere; or thus, true grace can never be vanquished.

God himself tells us we have 'need of patience;' he means great store of patience, 'that after we have done the will of God, we may receive the promise,' Heb. 10:36. And if of patience, then of hope; because patience bears all on hope's back. Now,

The hurt heart heals, but the healed heart still hurts. -- From "Exile" in Finding a Form

Still, the days were endurable and came and went like breath with only a few deep heaves to harm the pace.

My job is to bore you and let the hardness of your seat and the warmth of your robe prepare you for what is to come.

We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.

No man is truly great who is great only in his own lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and endure very much

Words are the only things that last forever; they are more durable than the eternal hills

The whole art of training consists in two things, exercise and abstinence, abstinence and exercise, repeated alternately without end.

Persistence wears down resistance.

Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try again; If at first you don't succeed, Try, try again; Then your courage should appear, For, if you will persevere, You will conquer, never fear; Try, try again.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you!!

Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction

Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.

Morality is the power of endurance in man; and a religion which teaches personal responsibility to God gives strength to morality. There is a powerful restraining influence in the belief that an all-seeing eye scrutinizes every thought and word and act of the individual.

You cannot judge a man's life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the results of a year. You must view his life as a whole. You must stand where you can see the man as he treads the entire path that leads from the cradle to the grave -- now crossing the plain, now climbing the steeps, now passing through pleasant fields, now wending his way with difficulty between rugged rocks -- tempted, tried, tested, triumphant.