Quotes About Endurance

ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn't sure when or where it was going to end.

Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death. Even thought I am still alive, I feel like each time I accept death, part of me dies. Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking with you. It will be quieter than I am.

When I said a few weeks ago that our people would eat cooking oil and olives if necessary, I didn't mean that there really would be only oil and olives. What I meant was that our people have the necessary patience to endure the current difficult situation. Palestinians would rather do without certain food items than their national rights.

It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

Mine is a true Arab love that clings and does not let go.

Hope is the last thing ever lost.

seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space

When you've waited two hundred million years, you can also wait six hundred;

Those who arrive at Thekla can see little of the city, beyond the plank fences, the sackcloth screens, the scaffoldings, the metal armatures, the wooden catwalks hanging from ropes or supported by sawhorses, the ladders, the trestles. If you ask, "Why is Thekla's construction taking such a long time?" the inhabitants continue hoisting sacks, lowering leaded strings, moving long brushes up and down, as they answer, "So that its destruction cannot begin.

Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.

The saying is that what does not kill you strengthens you, but sometimes you wonder which will happen first.

It takes some real hard running to stay in the same place

People may say I developed an iron will, but what really happened is that I made myself much fitter. I think an iron will is always supported by fitness.

They would beat him and hammer him and drill him. He bobbed, and ducked, and refused to fall. They struck out, as if they were driving nails into him, and with every blow he felt more like himself

Jer, i najve?e pustinje imaju svoje prole?e, pa ma kako kratko i neprimetno bilo.

Prevariti se u jednoj velikoj nadi nije sramota. Sama cinjenica da je takva nada mogla da postoji vredi toliko da nije suvise skupo placena jednim razocarenjem, ma kako tesko ono bilo.

To be a man, to have been born without knowing it or wanting it, to be thrown into the ocean of existence, to be obliged to swim, to exist; to have an identity; to resist the pressure and shocks from the outside and the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts - one's own and those of others - which so often exceed one's capacities? And what is more, to endure one's own thoughts about all this: in a word, to be human.

What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.

Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.

A turtle with no legs tends not to go anywhere.

You can only flap your arms so much before gravity catches up to you.

The word never means the spirit which sits with folded hands and simply bears things. It is victorious endurance … Christian steadfastness, the brave and courageous acceptance of everything life can do to us, and the transmuting of even the worst into another step on the upward way. It is the courageous and triumphant ability to bear things, which enables a man to pass breaking point and not to break, and always to greet the unseen with a cheer.7

Often we think of patience in passive terms, as if the patient person is utterly submissive and half asleep.

It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.