Quotes About Endurance

Livingstone explored for the rest of his life, enduring fevers, torrential rains, animal attacks, threatening tribes, and countless other hardships. Once when asked how he could make such sacrifices, Livingstone answered, "I never made a sacrifice. We ought not to talk of sacrifice when we remember the great sacrifice which Christ made when He left His Father's throne on high to give Himself for us.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

She stood by his bedside and waited for him to die.

I don't think any of us are prepared for the bitter pill we're sometimes asked to swallow.

The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in combat.

Experience had taught me that warthogs who tough it out are better in combat than your natural gazelles.

Now, the challenge is overtly physical during Hell Week—lots of cold, and sleep deprivation, and exhausting exercise in the surf and the mud. But physical transmogrifies to mental, when, after Hell Week, those tadpoles who made it through realize that they can do about 1,000 percent more than they thought they could. They are beginning to think like Warriors.

Ordinarily I believe that I have as high a spirit as the average man, and as solid a resolution; but when one has been dragged through the Valley of Humiliation, and plunged, again and again, into the Waters of Bitterness and Privation, a man can be constrained to a course of action of which, in his happier moments, he would have deemed himself incapable. I know this of my own knowledge.

Let this hell be our heaven.

After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.

A man is not born to run away." Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1921).*

This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.

even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.

Life is not a sprint. It was never meant to be. It is just one step of faith after another.

I believe it's after the honeymoon ends that true love begins. It's in the hard times that the greater virtues of love reveal themselves, like tolerance and patience and kindness.

Everyone has suffered more than you know.

I once read that love is like a rose: we fixate on the blossom, but it's the thorny stem that keeps it alive and aloft. I think marriage is like that. Like my father said, the things of greatest value are the things we fight for. And in the end, if we do it right, we value the stem far more than the blossom

But more than brave, you have love. And love is brave.

They tried to bury us. They just didn't know we were seeds.

Someday you may be celebrated, but it might not be in your lifetime. Heroes are heroes precisely because they are willing to do what everyone else won't—oppose the popular voice.

Richard Paul Evans

There is nothing as weak as water, but when it attacks and is persistent, nothing can withstand it. -Lao Tse

Oftentimes, the hottest fires of hell are fueled from within.

Truth is patient. It can afford to be, for eventually it will have its way.