Quotes About Endurance

Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.

When I bucked and shot myself, hearing him greedily drink and swallow, I knew I had tasted life at last—and wouldn't end up sobbing in a wheelchair after all.

It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.' [After winning his first Oscar after so many losses]

Golf is essentially an exercise in masochism conducted out-of-doors.

After a cup of this stuff, he'd be out there plowing fields himself, probably with his bare hands.

The miracle," Claire said, "is that anybody stays together.

Her heart, she had discovered in the last half year, was of durable stuff. You could test its mettle with a hammer.

What was inside him would never go away. What had happened would never not have happened.

It is unforgiving of weakness

Without the neural connection to his armor, he was conscious of the stumps of his legs, the ruin of his arms, the perpetual pain in his flesh. He

The Elvish language had a word that perfectly expressed his feeling: Vaendin-thiil, which meant "fatigued by life's dark trials.

We are, all of us, always being tested

We are, all of us, always being tested, my friend. Tests make us stronger, and strength is power, and power is the point. We must pass all the tests we face… Or die in the effort.

Twelve hours of work and I still can't sleep.Days go on and on... They don't end.

Being with the One who, out of infinite love, waits for us in the Blessed Sacrament, we will grow in peace amid the sufferings and trials of this life. We will find rest in the knowledge of His love for us, which is beyond our wildest hopes and dreams. When we truly know that we are loved, we can endure much and accomplish many things for the Kingdom.

Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you fall into various trials, knowing that the trying of your faith produces patience. And let patience have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and whole, lacking nothing. Jas 1:2–4

that by endurance and by the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

Everything has not been lost, but everything has sensed that it might perish.

Le vent se léve! ... il faut tenter de vivre!

It is almost as if the decline of the idea of eternity coincided with the increasing aversion to sustained effort.

Work is never finished, only abandoned.

El viento se levanta… ¡hay que intentar vivir!

There was a siege going on: it had been going on for a long time, but the besieged themselves were the last to take it seriously.

In the end you learned to live with things once you stopped talking about them.