Quotes About Endurance

she knew how to manage pain. She made herself cheerful. The worse things got, the more cheerful she became.

But it was the kind of story that doesn't go away after the first time you tell it so you have to tell it over and over until it goes away for good. If it ever can.

This book was written with the hope that it will] save someone who wants to give up, for there is always a new life waiting.

Pain can work from the outside in.

True love is not for the faint-hearted.

Do not be afraid to face your difficulty. Turn toward it. Lean into the wind. Hold your ground.

Being an artist means ripening like a tree which . . . stands confidently in the storm of winter not afraid that summer may not come. It always comes.

We've done this as human beings before. We're survivors. We have generations of ancestors behind us cheering us on, and saying, 'Yep, we've lived through some tough stuff too.

celebrate your survival

We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with Soul Force. We will not hate you, but we cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust laws. But we will soon wear you down with our capacity to suffer. And in winning our freedom we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win yours in the process. Martin

Patience is a virtue best left to the dead, who can afford it,

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

The very important thing you should have is patience.

[Of what it takes to be successful:] Patience, drive and very little fear.

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation

He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.

After a fellow has been through several kinds of hell and high water, it isn't exactly new to him if he is told that he may die. though it does give me a pain to think that just as I had given up the ship you fellow should arrive, only to have me die on your hands now that the fight is over. But that's all in the game.

While words may be altered or censored, the truth endures, even when not properly recorded. Truth can be forgotten, misplaced, or lost, but never annihilated.

I think of pain differently now. There is pain that hurts, pain that is so bad you can no longer feel it. Your body just says 'hold on'.

The terrible thing about pain is that it doesn't matter, it still hurts. It hurts like hell.

We need people who will go, and stay until the end.

The disadvantage of short term is a wrong perspective based on this generation's need for instant results.

All the unreasonable benefits for me came after nearly twenty years.

In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.