Quotes About Endurance

Nothing so bad you need to be cruel. Tough, yes. You'll have to kill, yes. But there's a difference in the heart. One makes you mean. The other keeps you going.

There was an art to living, and sometimes it required the inexorable, relentless resolve just to keep plowing forward, one step at a time, no matter what the hell it was you were doing.

Tolstoy will live forever. Some people do. But that's not enough. It's not the length of life that matters--just the depth of it. The chances we take. The paths we choose. How we go on after our hearts break. Hearts always break. And so we bend with our hearts. And we sway. But in the end--what matters is that we loved and lived

The good and the bad. It always happens together, and all you can do is press on. Press on.

True spirituality makes you loving and grateful, and forgiving, and patient, and gentle, and long-suffering. True spirituality breathes reverence into every act and deed.

Stick to a task, 'til it sticks to you. Beginners are many, finishers are few." -Anonymous, as quoted in Small and Simple Things.

For it is not requisite that a woman should hobble faster than she has strength!

What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.

Sometimes the power of prayer is the power to carry on. It doesn't always change your circumstances, but it gives you the strength to walk through them. When you pray through, the burden is taken off of your shoulders and put on the shoulders of Him who carried the cross to Calvary.

We give up too easily. We give up too soon. We quit praying right before the miracle happens.

Too often we pray ASAP prayers — as soon as possible. We need to start praying ALAT prayers — as long as it takes.

The hardest thing about praying hard is enduring unanswered prayers. If you don't guard your heart, unresolved anger toward God can undermine faith.

You can be saved without suffering, but you cannot be sanctified without suffering. That doesn't mean you seek it out, but it does mean you see it for what it is. It's an opportunity to glorify God.

God doesn't always call us to win. Sometimes He just calls us to try. Either way, it's obedience that glorifies God.

Orar con persistencia es algo largo y aburrido, pero es el precio que se paga por los milagros.

Twenty years later, Diana Nyad would attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida. She swam seventy-eight miles in forty-two hours, but strong winds stopped her short of her goal.

There are no shortcuts. There are no substitutes. Success is a derivative of persistence.

it's the prayers you pray when you feel like you want to quit praying that can bring the biggest breakthroughs.

Sometimes the power of prayer is the power to carry on. It doesn't always change your circumstances, but it gives you the strength to walk through them.

A veces el poder de la oración es el mismo para seguir adelante. No siempre cambia las circunstancias, pero sí nos da la fortaleza que necesitamos para atravesarlas. Cuando oramos sin desmayar, Dios quita la carga de nuestros hombros para ponerla en los hombros de aquel que llevó la cruz hasta el Calvario. Despu

Success is a derivative of persistence.

hundred pounds." Sometimes the power of prayer is the power to carry on. It doesn't always change your circumstances, but it gives you the strength to walk through them. When you pray through, the burden is taken off of your shoulders and put on the shoulders of Him who carried the cross to Calvary. After

These problems have been here so long that the only way I've been able to function at all is by learning to ignore them. Else I would be in a constant state of panic, unable to think or act constructively.

Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I... that I... that I fought hard.