Quotes About Endurance

When it becomes really impossible to get away and sleep, then the will to live evaporates of its own accord.

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If what we worship fail us, still the fire Burns on, and it is much to have believed.

All recurring joy is pain refined.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.

Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

Everyone recognizes reality (or recognizes what, in their experience, clearly pertains to reality) only because others designate it to them as such. Reality suffers from a species of inherent fragility, such that the reality of reality must incessantly be reinforced in order to endure.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Do not let your picture of the whole of your life confuse you, do not dwell upon all the manifold troubles which have come to pass and will come to pass; but ask yourself in regard to every passing moment: what is there here that cannot be borne and cannot be endured? Then remind yourself that it is not the future or the past that weighs heavy upon you, but always the present, and that this gradually grows less. (Meditations, VIII, 36)

There's no use dieting in my condition. I've got to wait until I can begin from scratch.

I like my job in emergency. Blood, bones, tendons seem like affirmations to me. I am awed by the human body, by its endurance. Thank God--because it'll be hours before X-Ray or Demerol. Maybe I'm morbid. I am fascinated by two fingers in a baggie, a glittering switchblade all the way out of a lean pimp's back. I like the fact, in Emergency, everything is reparable, or not.

It is ferocious, life, but it must eat . . .

Tough people don't die easily. You'll be surprised how much it takes to kill a strong human being.

I had survived that; I would survive this; survival did not mean enjoyment.

Everything that's worth having in life hurts like the devil. There's no way round that.

Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.

If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.