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Quotes About Endurance

If your time hasn't come not even a doctor can kill you.
~ Unknown
We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.
~ John Bacon
If you do it right, it will last forever.
~ Massimo Vignelli
It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value
~ George Nakashima
The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.
~ Saul Griffith
Be eager in your desires but humbly patient in their accomplishment.
~ Mary MacKillop
Sometimes you have to do something you dislike to create something you desire.
~ Mike Murdock
Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.
~ Richard Sennett
Perseverance, determination, commitment, and courage-those things are real. The desire for redemption drives you.
~ Michael Phelps
Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.
~ Donald Hall
Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
~ William Godwin
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune
All men desire to be immortal.
~ Theodore Parker
I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all.
~ Ricky Williams
You can keep going on much less attention than you crave.
~ Idries Shah, Reflections
Keep Inspiring everyday, because when you retire, you will lose desire, become tired, and expire.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Our lives are of great worth if we accept with good grace the situation Providence places us in, and go on living lovingly.
~ Unknown
There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
~ James Russell Lowell
It is a long road from conception to completion.
~ Moliere
What must be done must be done, whatever the price, the cost, the pain. One day we all must walk through fire.
~ David Hewson, Macbeth
The journey may be fraught with challenges, yet it continues, for even the smallest leaf must embrace destiny...Persistence is the key...
~ Virginia Alison
Everything passes everything wears out everything breaks.(Tout passe tout lasse tout casse.)
~ French proverb
Dignity in death is a birthright of each living thing.
~ Bhagat Puran Singh
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
~ A. S. Byatt