Quotes About Endurance

Writing a book is a blood sport. If it doesn't hurt when you're done, you're probably doing something wrong.

Your obstacles are not your end. Please remember that, and try again.

God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres.

Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong.

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.

Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

Kindness was the last thing she needed. She had to stay in the icy place, the numb place, and their warmth threatened to melt her just when she needed the cold.

Kindness which is not inexhaustible does not deserve the name.

Una pareja, pensé, que depende y vive de sus obstáculos: una pareja que se deshará cuando ya no los haya, si es que no la deshacen antes esos mismos obstáculos tan fatigosos y prolongados, que sin embargo tendrán que alimentar y cuidar y procurar hacer eternos, si ya les ha alcanzado el momento de no poder pasarse sin ti y sin mí, o el uno sin el otro.

Pero ahora hay que estar a la altura. No vacilar, no desmayarse, no decaer. Seguir viviendo, aunque resulta difícil hacerlo cuando lo que uno quiere es morirse.

Recuerda, todo lo que hace fuerte, duele. Algunos quedan

The great Vince Lombardi said, "Discipline and mental toughness are many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial, and most importantly, it's combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in.

While victories in the struggle are possible through Christ (vs. 25), they do not come easily or apart from daily battles involving just such self-sacrifice. All change is hard, and there must be powerful motivation to achieve it. Since change comes only gradually and through patient endurance, there must be hope.2

In addition there are those who do the right thing but give up too readily. They will drill until noon, but give up because it took too long and it is getting too hot; at 1:00 P.M. they would have struck oil! They will drill through the sand until they hit rock, but then they quit; it has become too difficult. Three feet deeper and they would have hit a gusher! Hope leads to perseverence that gives one the patience to continue in spite of delay or difficulty (I Thessalonians 1:3).

Knowing that there will be a way out, an end to the problem, is itself reassuring.

snail's pace. Hanna shook her

Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in this business when you will be the only one who does. Take heart from the knowledge that an author with a strong voice will often have trouble at the start of his or her career because strong,distinctive voices sometimes make editors nervous. But in the end, only the strong survive.

Any day is a good day so long as you survive to play another day.

All spiritual journeys are martyrdoms

That turtle is fearless. She has to be. She carries the Earth on her back.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Patience is a virtue, Virtue is a grace; Both put together Make a very pretty face

I bend but do not break.