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Quotes About Endurance

This period in your life, it feels like it's forever. But, if you're lucky, life is long and each of these forevers will oneday seem fleeting.
~ Nathan Englander
For some people, the pain and effort of exercise makes it difficult. But others live off of getting that second wind and the improvements to their body, and so they use that to push through the pain.
~ Unknown
We must take the long view—every defeat is a victory in a war of attrition.
~ Nathanael West
The rule of captivity is to bend, not break.
~ Unknown
Infantry Marines live only and forever in the real world.
~ Unknown
She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Do anything, save to lie down and die!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hope was all that stood between them and death.
~ Nathaniel Philbrick
It's only a two-day hike. But it lasts a lifetime.
~ Unknown
I want to believe that I'm not wrong. I want to believe that life isn't full of darkness. Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.
~ Natsuki Takaya
I know that happy things and fun things eventually come to an end. But things that are scary and sad come to an end too...they always do. Even if you can't always believe that , please don't give up. Live.
~ Natsuki Takaya
Every night greets the dawn. There is no night that goes on forever.
~ Natsuki Takaya
Even if you don't have hope right now, I promise it will come to you again. Again and again, hope will always bloom.
~ Natsuki Takaya
Live the kind of life you can be proud of in the end, even if you get lost or make mistakes along the way. The kind of life that'll earn you a "you fought well"... have lots of happy and sad times, and grow old like that.
~ Natsuki Takaya
Love is difficult. Whatever happens in the night, morning still always comes. Always. Has there ever been a night that had no dawn?
~ Natsuki Takaya
I want to believe that I'm not wrong. I want to believe that life isn't full of darkness. Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.
~ Natsuki Takaya
Let's try our best? I hope that someday the many, many tears that were shed will be worth it.
~ Natsuki Takaya
life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder then life itself
~ Nawal El Saadawi
She no longer fears anything, for everything which can hurt her she has already undergone.
~ Nawal El Saadawi
Perfect love is perfectly patient.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Patience is...clearly not fatalistic, shoulder-shrugging resignation. It is the acceptance of a divine rhythm to life; it is obedience prolonged. Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
Our afflictions brothers and sisters often will not be extinguished, they will be dwarfed and swallowed up in the joy of Christ. That's how we overcome, most of the time. It's not their elimination, but the placing of them in that larger context.
~ Neal A. Maxwell
He held the post until the end of the war, an end that Leif Tronstad did not see for himself.
~ Neal Bascomb