Quotes About Endurance

NO RADIO; no movies; limited reading—little diversion between the hard day just past and the hard day just ahead. "Living was just drudgery then," says Carroll Smith of Blanco. "Living—just living—was a problem. No lights. No plumbing. Nothing. Just living on the edge of starvation. That was farm life for us. God, city people think there was something fine about it. If they only knew Ã¢â'¬Â¦

On the rare occasions on which a movie was shown, there was as much suspense in the audience over whether the electricity would hold out to the end of the film as there was in the film itself.

Victory in defeat, there is none higher. She didn't give up, Ben; she's still trying to lift that stone after it has crushed her. She's a father working while cancer eats away his insides, to bring home one more pay check. She's a twelve-year-old trying to mother her brothers and sisters because mama had to go to Heaven. She's a switchboard operator sticking to her post while smoke chokes her and fire cuts off her escape. She's all the unsung heroes who couldn't make it but never quit.

The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion

We're simply trying to survive—and the first principle of survival is not to worry about the impossible and concentrate on what's possible.

I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure --will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets, to the stars, and beyond, carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage --and his noble essential decency. This I believe with all my heart.

Till the stars grow old and our sun grows cold? Will you fight for us, lie for us, love us - and let us love you?

Cast me into a dungeon, burn me at the stake, crown me king of kings, I can 'pursue happiness' as long as my brain lives—but neither gods nor saints, wise men nor subtle drugs, can insure that I will catch it.

Don't bawl over Ben—not in my presence. The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death . . . and that we are all in for—if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.

Life is short, but the years are long.

The weak ones died, and the bad ones died or were killed; the stock that survived was always stronger, smarter, more decent. New Beginnings was a planet to be proud of, and it would get better and better and better for a long time.

Some things—and some people—are not supposed to change.

I've been afraid so many times that I am no longer scared to be afraid again. What can't be cured must be endured.

Never try to outstubborn a cat

Hopelessness in a worthy cause is no excuse for abandoning it. My race fought without hope for many generations … then hope appeared. You and yours may do the same.

Women are more rugged than men; they have to be.

You see, my love. As you've always said, after the rain- Sun. After the darkness- Light. And after the illness- Health. Exactly, said the Tsar. We mustn't give up faith.

Although we suffer horribly still there is peace in our souls

For very long periods I am really patient, and then out breaks my bad temper. It is not so difficult to bear great trials, but these little buzzing mosquitos are so trying.

Persistence Pays - The person who is willing to keep asking for what they want, and keeps demonstrating value, is ultimately the most persuasive." – Jason Nazar, CEO and co-founder, Docstoc [8]

Tough is what you do, more than it is how you feel about it before or after," I said. "You're tough enough.

Who is he?" "Jiminy Cricket," I said. "He hangs around to make

Quirk was still staring out the window. "I'm trying to keep hold of this thing," he said. "The guy isn't going to stop and

Hawk looked at Tony without speaking. He had three gunshot wounds and still could barely stand, but