Quotes About Endurance

Courage is inherent in all creatures; it is the quality that keeps them alive, because they endure.

unnecessary discomfort is a form of martyrdom with which I have no sympathy.

I should have been grateful to him, and I was—the way I was grateful to my dentist after he had filled a big cavity without anesthesia.

spend the rest of his life nobly forgiving her. Nothing can be more infuriating than being forgiven over and over again.

But what could you do? Only keep going. People kept going; they had been doing it for thousands of years. You took the kindness offered, letting it seep as far in as it could go, and the remaining dark crevices you carried around with you, knowing that over time they might change into something almost bearable.

You are wasting time by suffering twice. I mention this only to show how many things the mind cannot will itself to do, even if it wants to.

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

Humility, and the most patient perseverance, seem almost as necessary in gardening as rain and sunshine, and every failure must be used as a stepping-stone to something better.

Isn't it a mercy that we never get cured of being expectant? It makes life so bearable. However regularly we are disappointed and nothing whatever happens, after the first blow has fallen, after the first catch of the breath, the first gulp of misery, we turn our eyes with all their old eagerness to a point a little further along the road.

Those years in the back diningroom, like some dark tunnel through which one emerges into sunshine, had ended for her in glory. All the time she had been so miserable, she had really been heading straight for this. She was awestruck. Such great and unexpected blessings should bring forth fruit, she vowed, and she would show her gratitude by seeing to it that they did.

Sometimes it pays to fight back, even when everyone says it would be better to give up.

Don't know how I kept going. You just do. You have to, so you do.

Hope is treacherous, but how can you live without it?

How can you hide from what never goes away? --Heraclitus

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and its compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.

There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.

A responsible man remained unflappable in the face of personal loss. He would wave away an affront...

One man alone can give up and subside into the cold and die, far more easily than two together, who will both brace and provoke each other, wrangle and support, give each other warmth and challenge each other's endurance. (The Virgin in the Ice, p. 87 of 200)

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Remember, every attack of the Enemy has a shelf life; this too will pass. But endurance, or grit, is necessary to survive a siege.

Grit, or the ability to endure, is hard to come by. It is developed only by walking through the fire and not giving up.

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

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