Quotes About Endurance

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you Submit to your grief -- your time for joy will come, believe me.

There are people who just live and there are people who just survive," Bega had said. "Americans live, we survive.

Addressing the problem required standing up and shoving his hand into his pants to free his testicles from the grip of his underwear. He was not ready for such a commitment, so he endured. The mind can imagine nothing except while the body endures.

I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn my empty heart to dust. Struck by the clouds of cruel fate My crown of Summer bloom is sere Alone and sad, I watch and wait And wonder if the end is near. As conquered by the last cold air When Winter whistles in the wind Alone upon a branch that's bare A trembling leaf is left behind.

Then she would faint once more and come to once more, only to relive new torments. My heart cannot bear to describe her ordeal any longer: An overwhelming sorrow makes me skip to the end of that journey, which lasted for more than four hours, after which we will still have some more agonizing hours to endure. Let us go now to the castle where the unhappy girl was being taken.

I have lived a life full of love and pain, of Joy and Sorrow, and I live on still. i have many, many years ahead of me, each day with the potential to be filled to the brim with trials to face and challenges to overcome.

If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.

Disciplined perseverance pays far more dividends than impetuous attempts at individual heroism.

The Only time to give up is when you are dead.

Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.

Gyo ? ('practice' and also 'to practice') is what monks undergo in their training inside the temple; it's an ordeal, a trial to be mastered. And it never ends. You practice; you reach a new level; and then you practice again.

Everything shall be okay in the end. If it is not okay, then it is not the end

you can lose more than you thought possible and still grow back, stronger than anyone imagined.

Sorrow seemed to me to be more like a road wound through life

the only things you must have to become a writer are the stamina to continue and a wily, cagey heart in the face of extremity, failure and success.

A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't.

You could mistake your ability to go this far for strength. So you go on. Strength is admirable, after all, and you are ashamed of everything else about yourself. This endurance at least — this you can admire.

Nothing to fear from a fate that was already yours, then, except, perhaps, that it would never leave you.

I think you can never know what you can live without. I think you can never know what you will live through. Only when the disaster arrives and you are there does the depth of your real inner resources reveal itself, and not a moment before

If anything, I was proud of it. I had endured I told myself. I was so strong. But this is not strength. It is only endurance. A kind of emotional or therapeutic anorexia. I was not strong. Or if I was, it was the adrenaline of the wounded. I was really only broken, moving through the landscape as if I were not, and taking all my pride in believing I was passing as whole.

I am built for this terrible pain, I told myself, and sent myself on my way.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Lo importante es sobrevivir y una persona tolerará el dolor y renunciará al placer para mantenerse viva.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.