Quotes About Endurance

Just the hill and me. Just the challenge and me. Just my fears an me. Bring it on.

He never flinched, he never cringed, but he died as one would wish all Englishmen to die—quietly and undramatically

Seeking to encourage Collins, Churchill replied with his favourite Boer saying, 'All will come right.' On

Sweat silently. Let's have no squawking about a little expenditure of energy.

The only man we have any respect for, is he who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.

By waiting and by calm you shall be saved, in quiet and in trust your strength lies. —Isaiah 30:15

When others were overcome by the heat, his hand would be "cooler than snow and more fragrant than musk".

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.

It is easy enough to do good once or twice, but to keep on doing good without getting disgusted with the ingratitude of those whom we have benefited, that is not so easy.

Believest thou? then thou wilt speak boldly. Speakest thou boldy? then thou must suffer. Sufferest thou? then thou shalt be comforted. For ... faith, the confession thereof, and the cross do follow one another.

When you understand this—and you should because "what hast thou that thou didst not receive?"—you will not flatter yourself on the one hand and on the other hand you will not carry yourself with the thought of resigning from the ministry when you are insulted, reproached, or persecuted.

You must die if you would live under this King. You must bear the cross and the hatred of the whole world. You must not flee from ignominy, poverty, hunger, and thirst, in other words, all the evil that floods the earth.

Therefore it is better to endure troubles with the hope of eternal deliverance than to avoid them and rush into eternal ruin.

And the human mind endures misfortunes of any kind more easily than prosperity and abundance, as the German proverb puts it: "Strong legs are needed to be able to endure good days.

A good preacher should have these properties and virtues: 1. Teach systematically 2. Have a ready wit 3. Be eloquent 4. Have a good voice 5. Have a good memory 6. Know when to make an end 7. Be sure of his doctrine 8. Venture and engage body and blood, wealth and honour, in the Word 9. Suffer himself to be mocked and jeered of every one

Experience teaches how amazingly the ungodly and wicked tremble in lightning, pestilence, or other exigency of death, when the righteous, on the other hand, endure everything unafraid and calm.

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Allmen musste ein Buch, das er einmal angefangen hatte, zu Ende lesen, selbst wenn es noch so schlecht war. Er tat dies nicht aus Respekt dem Autor gegenüber, sondern aus Neugier. Er glaubte, dass jedes Buch ein Geheimnis habe, und sei es auch nur die Antwort auf die Frage, weshalb es geschrieben wurde.

For 56 days they had given everything, endured everything; they had achieved the impossible, not once but again and again. They deserved to win; and if they were now being robbed of victory, then the real thieves weren't the People's Army, the 'rats of the Nam Youm', or anyone else in the filth of this last valley, but men who slept between clean sheets far away.

It was a bastard, life. It had the knack of throwing you a curve every now and then to keep you interested. To give you a reason to keep going. Then, just as you thought you had cracked it, you took delivery of a blow that was so severe you were amazed at how you could ever have survived it. But somehow you did, and somehow you carried on.