Quotes About Endurance

Humor, faith, courage, compassion – these don't rot and vanish;

The world turns and the world changes, but one thing does not change . . . The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.

Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

If you really truly want to know, I've thought if I was ever free someday, I might discover I've held my tears so long that I can't cry anymore, that I'm a dry stone and nothing can ever be wrung from me.

You couldn't be afraid of anything if you were sure you could bear the pain it might cause you.

Waiting is one of the things that human beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully if we are to know happiness.

What we had both done was keep on keeping on, which is all any of us can do.

pace the corridor back and forth until I wear the edge off my nerves or just collapse unconscious from exhaustion

He can't endure being powerless. He cannot tolerate it.

Denial endures because it soothes.

After all I've lost, what's left to lose?

She isn't a survivalist, but she intends to survive.

After twenty-six months on Jacob's Ladder, her fear has largely faded

She is not happy, nor is she unhappy; she takes pleasure in her endurance.

Lisa Chelgrin.

Joel Bandiri

They were good at enduring: adversity was the touchstone by which they proved their value to themselves.

actually Dorian Purcell.

The cold tide of evil rises relentlessly. Although the dikes that resist it can be built higher, the power of such an insistent tide is greater even than the power of a deep sea of water; though perhaps nothing can stand against Evil forever, there is at least a kind of honor in undertaking the effort to restrain the ultimate flood as long as possible.

As long as we're not soaked in blood and trying to stuff our intestines back into our bodies through a gut wound, we'll be okay.

Teach us… To give and not to count the cost; To fight and not to heed the wounds; To toil and not to seek for rest… —St. Ignatius Loyola

She can be bent so severely that it doesn't seem as though she can ever straighten herself out again, but she always does. She gets on with getting on.

Megan Bookman's